How to Use impracticable in a Sentence

impracticable

adjective

• The building is in such a state of obsolescence that remodeling would be impracticable, the owners said.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• In any other context, those quarries—now the Carrières des Lumières art venue for light and sound installations—would have been impracticable.
  — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 4 May 2021
• But schemes to mine and shuttle raw materials seem impracticable to many experts.
  — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2017
• While many Americans agree that this is one of our country’s greatest crises, solutions can seem overwhelming and impracticable.
  — Daniel S. Loeb, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• Teachers’ impracticable demands are leaving students, even at charter schools, stuck at home.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
• If dodging becomes impracticable, Lopes recommends finding a mound or large boulder for shelter and covering your head with a backpack when a helmet or hard-hat is unavailable.
  — Giannella M. Garrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• But with Yee as the agent, communicating such an assurance was impracticable.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• However, a personal guarantee becomes impracticable when there are potentially hundreds of owners, and none of them owns more than 20% of the business.
  — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 7 June 2021
• This defense is when a party’s performance is made impracticable without his fault by the occurrence of an unanticipated event.
  — Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2020
• Judges have opted for that approach when concluding that limiting a ruling only to their specific district would be impracticable.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• The expectation or requirement of mask-wearing is impracticable to impose only on those who are vulnerable or may be dangerous.
  — Nicole Saphier, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• With a growing number of qualifying events already canceled, the summer start date is looking increasingly impracticable.
  — Isabel Reynolds / Bloomberg, Time, 17 Mar. 2020
• In addition, employers should also provide hand sanitizer for when hand washing is impracticable.
  — Anthony J. Oncidi, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2020
• Experts believe the plan is impracticable and unlikely to materialize.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
• Strategies well-suited for offices, factories or retail may be ill-suited for film production, where people often work closely together for extended periods of time, and where remote work is often impracticable, if not impossible.
  — Anthony J. Oncidi, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024