How to Use impossibility in a Sentence

impossibility

noun
  • The blizzard made travel an impossibility.
  • Intrigued by the sheer impossibility of the task, Strike agrees to devote one year to the case.
    Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
  • This seemed like an impossibility a few weeks back, but the Bears are on a roll right now.
    Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • But, at the same time, the very impossibility of this project weighed on him throughout the war and for the remainder of his life.
    Dallas News, 28 June 2019
  • That’s the impossibility of the professor and the politician: neither has a ground to stand on; both must reach for the sky.
    Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The impossibility of reversing the past and restoring life to the dead only adds to the force of their desire to act.
    Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • What these trips had in common was the sense of impossibility that lingered at the start.
    Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Malone would love to sell their home, but that seems an impossibility with the dump next door.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • For some work may become an impossibility, but for those who can work there are ways to get back out there.
    Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • The rebel slaves on the ship had a righteous cause and a sound strategy; they were undone by the impossibility of finding a safe place to land.
    Justin Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • And perhaps impossibility is as good a place as any to live out the remainder of my days.
    Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And yet, the thought of owning a home in Los Angeles was an impossibility to him.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • And that doesn't seem like too much of an impossibility.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Movies are supposed to be a break from the impossibility of real life.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, as Lorentz told Uhlenbeck, the surface of the electron would have to be moving 10 times faster than the speed of light, a flat impossibility.
    Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The lid was propped open — something that had once seemed like an impossibility.
    Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • These new players see a max-out not as an impossibility, but as a rite of passage.
    Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
  • For now, impossibility keeps me from the quandary of having to decide.
    Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But the near-impossibility of reaching the airport has meant that many of the departing flights have left with empty seats.
    Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • This, in short, is a call for more theatre, and theatre is about all Democrats can hope to wring from the process given the impossibility of Trump’s conviction.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
  • About 40 minutes into the trip, the bus stopped to take on yet more passengers, even though this seemed an impossibility.
    Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The dizzying ascent is a reminder of what can happen to a group of players when the walls of impossibility crumble.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The stream of new cases showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders.
    Raf Casert and Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The record of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos first entering the market in 1990 points to an impossibility at the heart of Montañez’s story all along.
    Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Getting her from wheelchair to car was a lengthy ordeal, the cozy back seat an impossibility.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The canvassers sought a state takeover of the city's elections, which Brater called a practical impossibility.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Moï, born in Vietnam and now living in France, told a story about the impossibility of return.
    Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • These impossibility results were not the end of the story.
    Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • The proof joins a long line of work on the mathematical impossibility of complete disorder.
    Leila Sloman, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2024
  • And livestock need to eat them every day — a logistical impossibility for the majority of the world’s ruminants, which graze freely in pastures.
    Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2024

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