How to Use impassable in a Sentence

impassable

adjective
Definition of impassablenext
Synonyms for impassablenext
  • The roads were made impassable by the flood.
  • Some roads in the area were still impassable due to snow depth, the agency said.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • Roads in and leading to the park can be snowy, icy or impassable.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Some roads are still wet and torn half apart, some impassable.
    — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2022
  • By the next day, Honor was still struggling — and the roads were impassable.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The molten rock could make the road impassable and force drivers to find alternate coastal routes in the north and south.
    — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
  • World Bank has worked with them on that in terms of roads and railroads, but, of course, now many of those are impassable.
    — Julia Chatterley, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In some areas of the state, roads are still impassable due to flooding or snow.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
  • In Wyoming, roads across much of the southern part of the state were impassable, state officials said.
    — Jim Salter, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Was the path ahead impassable on wheels, so infants had to be carried?
    — Peter Maass, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Roads controlled by gangs are now impassable and those that dare risk their lives.
    — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • Waters that reached up to 20 feet deep made the exit road impassable.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Aside from the highways, the rest of the roads are dirt, which require a four-wheel drive and can become impassable after a hard rain.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 May 2022
  • Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Streets were impassable and mayors on the island urged people to stay home.
    — Colleen Barry, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
  • During the search, police said the search area was hilly with lots of standing water and some roads were impassable due to snow.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • An impassable thicket of reedy bamboo hemmed us in on either side; the canopy was low above our heads.
    — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Through it all, Grygorovych and the rest of GSC never panicked, even when the path forward looked impassable.
    — WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The heat is extreme, and the boats appear to always be further than imagined along the rocky, impassable riverbed.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Their trucks can't even get to some clients, as flooding and power outages made some roads and bridges in the region impassable.
    — Cara Korte, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Folau was anxious to retrace his steps to search for his sister’s car, but the roads were impassable.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The fans pressed in, making the sidewalks nearly impassable.
    — Julie Johnson, Danielle Echeverria, Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2022
  • And then many of the roads in the mountain areas could be impassable by early Monday morning.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Most notable is that the work will involve the replacement of three bridges across the Bark River, making the road impassable at times.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • There are many trails that are nearly impassable, covered by brush or washed out by monsoon storms and fires.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
  • The September deluge had triggered a large rock slide that rendered the section of the road impassable.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The causeway out to Sanibel Island was shattered by storm surge and impassable.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2022
  • As the waters rise, buildings could be cut off, sewage systems knocked out and roadways impassable.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Some streets that were impassable on Friday night were eerily clear of homes, trees and people by Sunday.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023

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