How to Use impossibly in a Sentence

impossibly

adverb

• Even in the best-case scenarios, a year in the life of a child can seem impossibly long.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• Michael Calore: Hit us with the impossibly long name again.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
• Those bands seemed so huge and impossibly out of reach.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
• If that sounds like a lofty goal -- impossibly so, even -- then good.
  — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
• But leave it to Kaia Gerber to kick off the evening's red carpet with a look to set the bar impossibly high—and the lengths even longer.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 2 May 2022
• Her dress, topped with a corset, showed off an impossibly tiny waist.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
• The result is an impossibly thin sheet of maize that inherits all of the stone’s ridges and crevices.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022
• In January of 2018, when Houghton closed, many in the industry mourned the loss of the impossibly cool brand.
  — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• The dish to order: An impossibly crispy pork schnitzel, topped with golden beets and smoked roe.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2024
• On the other side, cloud-like Dall sheep climbed impossibly steep, unnamed cliffs, bound for the meringue-like snow at their peaks.
  — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
• Your Grace, you, your favorite spoon, and your impossibly smoky voice will be missed.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Apr. 2021
• The jeans were impossibly low-slung and covered with prints of flowers.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
• The image slapped me across the face: a truck in the pouring rain, leaning impossibly to the right on a rickety rope bridge ready for collapse.
  — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• Slot canyons are rife with impossibly tidy life lessons.
  — Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2022
• The resort sits on the Caribbean, which in the sunlight is impossibly blue and crystal clear.
  — Rebecca Holland, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• The middle is impossibly airy, a light, puffy cushion for all the toppings.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• To make a long story impossibly brief: Mort was born in Brooklyn, in 1931.
  — Sofia Warren, The New Yorker, 8 July 2024
• Almost impossibly, the forecast was even worse for parts of Wyoming.
  — Margaret Stafford, Josh Funk and Juan Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Turner looked impossibly cool in a matching brown leather set and black knee-high boots.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• The Pentagon, where Dwayne worked, had impossibly been hit by a plane.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2021
• Her chunky layers with smooth and glossy ends were the perfect canvas for that refreshed–and impossibly springy–shade.
  — Lauren Murdoch-Smith, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
• Series creator and showrunner Joshua Safran spills the deets on those impossibly cool teens hanging on the Met steps.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 7 July 2021
• The logo was not subtle: The second S featured an impossibly long bottom stroke that ran the entire length of the word nights.
  — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 23 June 2021
• That’s a borderline impossibly high bar for the team to reach just one year after a once-in-a-lifetime season.
  — Scott Bell, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
• This week marks the return to tennis of one Roger Federer—you’ve heard of him, perhaps?—he of the 20 Grand Slam titles and the impossibly elegant moves both on and off the court.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
• Many of the laughs in early episodes come at the expense of Ellis, Lowe's impossibly wacky founder, whose idea of bliss is walking around his office nude.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• Most loners never shoot up a school, and those that do make up an impossibly small number.
  — Daniel Buck, National Review, 6 June 2022
• Ever since her impossibly chic wedding in the south of France in spring 2023, Sofia Richie Grainge has become something of a paragon of elegant, classic style.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
• Next up, Joe arrived in time to see Josie operate in a simulator — VR goggles that deposited her in a rundown (and impossibly lifelike?) neighborhood.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024