How to Use impossibility in a Sentence

impossibility

noun
Definition of impossibilitynext
  • The blizzard made travel an impossibility.
  • And perhaps impossibility is as good a place as any to live out the remainder of my days.
    — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And yet, the thought of owning a home in Los Angeles was an impossibility to him.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • And that doesn't seem like too much of an impossibility.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, as Lorentz told Uhlenbeck, the surface of the electron would have to be moving 10 times faster than the speed of light, a flat impossibility.
    — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The lid was propped open — something that had once seemed like an impossibility.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • But the near-impossibility of reaching the airport has meant that many of the departing flights have left with empty seats.
    — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • About 40 minutes into the trip, the bus stopped to take on yet more passengers, even though this seemed an impossibility.
    — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The dizzying ascent is a reminder of what can happen to a group of players when the walls of impossibility crumble.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The stream of new cases showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders.
    — Raf Casert and Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The canvassers sought a state takeover of the city's elections, which Brater called a practical impossibility.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2022
  • These impossibility results were not the end of the story.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • In that last line, GPT-3 made physical the fact of that impossibility, by referring to the hand—my hand—that existed both then and now.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Nothing seems more hopeless than trying to get out of a black hole—in fact, this impossibility is what defines it.
    — Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Hisham Matar’s new novel looks at the price of being forced out of one’s home and the impossibility of ever really going back again.
    — Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s a how-to guide to attempt to fulfill this impossibility.
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • During the pandemic, the sheer impossibility of knowing what would happen next has taken all of us who do that work to the breaking point.
    — David M. Perry, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • It is equipped with weapons and can be seen happily trekking all the way to the moon -- an impossibility for the real shuttles, which were never designed to leave Earth's orbit.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Strauss had found inspiration for the work, composed for two dozen string soloists during the final months of the war, in a Goethe poem about the impossibility of self-knowledge.
    — Christopher Benfey, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The infections showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders.
    — Raf Casert and Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • First, there is the obvious impossibility of plucking the best lines from a novel where every sentence reads like a straight shot of serotonin.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Despite all the changes, some themes emerge: the persistent tension between art and commerce and the impossibility of predicting what will be a hit.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
  • For most of his life, performing it in China would have been an impossibility.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Prior to 2012, most fans felt a Beach Boys reunion tour with Brian was an impossibility.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
  • And permit tour of real investing and, and people keep getting tempted to get in. Leila: And the impossibility of tracing it.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • That would be an impossibility, even for the sharpest of general managers.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • There’s got to be a scientific study somewhere that states the high level of impossibility to avoid crushing cold beers at their concerts.
    — Dallas News, 15 June 2022
  • Hay farmers, who send bales across the Pacific to feed livestock in Asia, are not even bothering to cut their crops this year, given the near-impossibility of finding room on ships.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • But his son’s absence, and the aching impossibility of closure, had pushed him to reinvent himself as an online detective of sorts.
    — Jason Blevins, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Aucoin finds impossibility to be a constant in the history of opera.
    — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021

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