How to Use unbridgeable in a Sentence

unbridgeable

adjective
  • But on none of them is the range of public opinion, or the range of available options, so wide as to be unbridgeable.
    Christopher Demuth Sr., National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • As a result, the spending gap between the top two teams in Spain has become unbridgeable.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • By the 1960s, the chasm between these two wings of the Democratic Party was proving unbridgeable.
    Vincent J. Cannato, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The contrasts between Reagan and Trump are stark and unbridgeable.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 14 Mar. 2022
  • There is now an unbridgeable gap between the cost to drill for oil domestically and the price paid for oil on the market.
    Justin Worland, Time, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The distance between man and God, and also the unbridgeable distance within man himself — between the mind and the heart.
    Dina Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Between a woman who has given birth and one who hasn’t lies an unbridgeable gap.
    M.j. Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • For better or worse, there is an unbridgeable divide between all of us.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
  • Without Laporte, City may find themselves with an unbridgeable gap to make up.
    SI.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • From there, the story has taken on a life of its own — with seemingly unbridgeable positions on both sides and threats from strangers.
    Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • There is an unbridgeable divide in the way left and right perceive this reality.
    Dennis Prager, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The two halves of high-schooler Kamala Khan’s life initially seem unbridgeable.
    Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
  • That alone goes far in explaining the unbridgeable differences between Right and Left.
    Dennis Prager, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Some see the trend as another sign — or maybe even a cause — of the country’s seemingly unbridgeable divisions.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • There is a growing, nigh-unbridgeable cultural gap over guns.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 June 2021
  • That gap was once seen as an unbridgeable divide preventing any sort of equal pay settlement.
    New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Some of Ellis’s most arresting work would render the unbridgeable gap between him and his father in stark, formal terms.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In London and Rio, the span between 60-kilogram lightweight and 75-kilogram middleweight was unbridgeable for many fighters.
    Greg Beacham, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • It must be noted, however, that despite a poor start to the season, Spurs are only trailing the Premier League top four by three points as things stand; hardly an unbridgeable chasm.
    SI.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • For a young artist with dreams of conquering the world, the gulf between aspiration and reality can seem unbridgeable.
    Time, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Sure, median incomes hadn’t risen substantially since the seventies; the gap between the rich and the poor appeared unbridgeable.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The wealth gap can seem unbridgeable to many Cambodians, even if those living in absolute poverty has declined sharply.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • That could mean an unbridgeable impasse in terms of negotiations with Steelers brass, never known to be held hostage in these scenarios.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
  • The cultural and financial gap between elites and nonelites has become vast and seemingly unbridgeable.
    Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • This is still a disturbing story about what happens when the emotional gulf between parent and child becomes unbridgeable.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Everything felt worse because of the distance, made unbridgeable by circumstance.
    Josh Gondelman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Was there an unbridgeable divide between France’s vision of itself and its actual power?
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Last year, the idea of Crocs as legitimate footwear option created a nearly unbridgeable rift between colleagues at the GQ offices, with some of our editors on the pro-Crocs side and others waging war against them.
    Jake Woolf, GQ, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Their response shows how thoroughly love of Springsteen transcends what might seem to be unbridgeable differences of race and age and nationality.
    Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Kristóf’s novels are closely based on her life and at the same time reveal nothing about her life, a contradiction that brings together her terrors and her writing and also imposes an unbridgeable distance between them.
    Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023

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