How to Use unpassable in a Sentence

unpassable

adjective

• The roads to the town are unpassable, with trees down and embers still burning.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• But the roads leading up to their house are still flooded and unpassable.
  — Duy Linh Tu, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2021
• There were some cracks and gaps down the stairwell, but nothing unpassable.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2021
• Driving to her home would be difficult with many roads still unpassable.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2021
• Trump appears to be claiming that, as a last resort to ban imports, American cars are forced to pass an unpassable test.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• Many roads in and around Yellowstone National Park remain covered with snow and unpassable.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• Nearly a month later, many roads remain unpassable, and power has yet to be restored to significant parts of the areas hardest hit.
  — Sarah Ravits, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Reaching this vista required veering up onto a dusty, unpaved road that is often unpassable during the winter except by horse.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2019
• Working with a low budget that never becomes a hindrance, Mr. Perry uses exterior space to convey interiority, as when Alyssa speaks to Nick — who keeps his back to her — from across a room that feels like a vast, unpassable chasm.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• While Democrats have pressed forward with this unpassable, impractical, and partisan legislation, clearly there would have been an opportunity for a more consensus approach.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• After an initial inspection, Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, estimated nearly 90% of homes on the island are totally destroyed, with communications down, roads unpassable, and substantial flooding.
  — Jennifer L. Anderson, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024