How to Use impenetrability in a Sentence

impenetrability

noun

• The arid landscapes are stunning in their vast impenetrability; the prospect of crossing them is daunting.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019
• This near-impenetrability is partly why the sprawling, glowing, street-food hub is on the rise for travelers.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2019
• By the time Epic could seize on what the genre was missing, the whole scene had already become synonymous with impenetrability and disingenuous copycats.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• Those random-looking squiggles seem to symbolise the impenetrability of the language, the difficulty of the task ahead.
  — The Economist, 8 May 2021
• Through 11 games, Ohio State’s defense built an aura of near-impenetrability.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2019
• Making the matter more difficult to assess for investors is the fluid nature of the outbreak and the impenetrability of Chinese politics.
  — Karen Langley, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• The goal is to test different materials and designs for impenetrability, although there may not be one big winner.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• One fallout from the Duke of York’s involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is that journalists began to probe into his personal finances which have long shrouded in a fog of pea-soup impenetrability.
  — David McClure, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2020
• What wounds Angela is not just the lack of conversation, but her father’s willful impenetrability.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• That notion of impenetrability seemed to be holding true for Facebook, now Meta, until recently.
  — Danielle Seurkamp, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• Lynch's impenetrability has grown greater in recent years—earlier films like Blue Velvet or even the first season of Twin Peaks feel uncomplicated by comparison.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 22 May 2017
• But above all, Chlumsky’s aim was to create a realistic emotional portrait for a character who’s very body language channels a kind of emotional impenetrability.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2019
• Mashing together slang, jargon, pressurized lyricism, erudition, and singsong, he was often seen to court impenetrability in his search to conjure emotional textures rather than solid ideas.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
• Nature abhors a vacuum, and the vastness of Egyptian statuary made the vacuum left by the hieroglyphs’ impenetrability seem comparably great.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Inland Empire, however, is on its own island of pure impenetrability.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• The earth-shifting quality of Serra comes from the material’s stubborn texture, its impenetrability.
  — Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
• But there's also a sense of impenetrability, exacerbated by her penchant for secrecy — a characteristic that has led to her greatest vulnerability in this election: the email scandal over her use of a private server.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, Town & Country, 25 July 2016

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024