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
  • The roads were impassable, the air thick with smoke, and no one had cell phone service.
    — Jason Hanna, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Maybe the road to his house, which turned to a deep, impassable lake in the rainy season, would be paved over.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
  • But the road that went to my childhood home in Asheville is impassable.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The island is close to the size of France, and in the rainy season the bush roads turn into impassable rivers of mud.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2019
  • But the stream is largely dried up this year and proved impassable.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • They were scattered from the air to make trails impassable.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Some roads are still wet and torn half apart, some impassable.
    — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The road is impassable now from Delta to Wilmer, police said.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2021
  • 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 terrain below them was impassable due to the steep sheer cliffs.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 25 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The gate to Spinney Mountain Access Road is closed, and the road is impassable.
    — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Was the path ahead impassable on wheels, so infants had to be carried?
    — Peter Maass, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Twice we have been sent back by impassable roads due to a bad snow storm that has shut all roads or flights into the area.
    — Nick Schwartz, For The Win, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Roads controlled by gangs are now impassable and those that dare risk their lives.
    — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • These places may not be cut off from the world by the open ocean, but their barriers are no less impassable.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The extensive damage has made many of the the trails impassable and the campgrounds unsafe.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The road to the farm also remains impassable a month later.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Finding a sea of ice at the mouth of the Deh Cho, the young explorer declared the route impassable and the mission a failure.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • In the fall of 2019, the area around La Ventana was deluged with rain, which made the desert lush and green but also left roads impassable in some places.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The employees cited Cooper’s office and urged colleagues who wanted to help after the storm not to travel to the state’s western region, as roads were impassable there and rescue operations were underway.
    — Amy Sherman and Paul Specht, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Oct. 2024

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