How To Use Impassable In A Sentence

The avenue had never been paved, and deep mud made it impassable in winter.
The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure.
Back roads around Tollerton were almost impassable because of standing water and the only clear way in and out of the village was on the road to and from the A19.
The very roads that permit us to travel may be impassable barriers to other species.
The alternative route down the locks became virtually impassable as the locks were allowed to deteriorate.

Fortunately for us, we had made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the country the previous day, and instantly realized that escape by our right (as we faced Lucknow) was impossible, because of a huge impassable _jhil_. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
Then finding no longer any refuge from inevitable captivity, except in the waters of the Elster, the brave prince had thrown himself into it without considering the impassable steepness of the opposite bank, and in a few moments he with his horse was ingulfed beneath the waves. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
The mountain roads are totally impassable to cars in winter.
Notwithstanding the ubiquity of the autocar, it is still a fact that between the man in the car and the man on foot is set an impassable gulf. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country
Bridges and roads were impassable in many eastern and southern areas. Times, Sunday Times
On a map without contours, two communities cut off from one another by an impassable mountain may appear as close neighbours.
Road closures and virtually impassable conditions may dictate that you make alternate plans for or perhaps just delay a couple of days that anticipated trek up to the Sierra for a weekend ecotour. Stormy Weather: Rainy Season In Oaxaca
His distaste for big inert words - words like omniscient, impassable and imperturbable, which he finds other theologians using to describe God - inspires his own desire for accessibility.
For the secret of all Austrian music is that there is no impassable barrier between the music of the people and ‘culture’.
When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood. My Tropic Isle
A few lived in adjoining counties and also were unable to travel due to flooded and impassable roads.
The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
Many roads were flooded and impassable following the storm.
They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods. WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
But when I go back to Aunt Jane's garden, I pass through the front yard and the back yard between rows of lilac, syringas, calycanthus, and honeysuckle; I open the rickety gate, and find myself in a genuine old-fashioned garden, the homely, inclusive spot that welcomed all growing things to its hospitable bounds, type of the days when there were no impassable barriers of gold and caste between man and his brother man. Aunt Jane of Kentucky
“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen,” he says, recounting his bouts with writer's block, depression, dry flaky skin and existential torment. With Arthur Rimbaud at the Chamber of Commerce Lunch
Powerful gusts uprooted trees, twisted steel towers and knocked down bridges, rendering many roadways impassable.
Horrid streams of a-a have to be cautiously skirted, which after rushing remorselessly over the kindlier lava have heaped rugged pinnacles of brown scoriae into impassable walls. The Hawaiian Archipelago
However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England.
There was an impassable barrier between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery.
Vast tracts were unpopulated, roads were extensive, but easy for brigands or local overlords to cut or tax, and often impassable in the wet season.
I know my age has thrown up an impassable block in our road together.
The passes there have become impassable because of the weather and the orcs that are everywhere.
The avenue had never been paved, and deep mud made it impassable in winter.
There are few roads, and some of these are impassable quagmires in the rainy season.
That was the line, the very sharp and impassable line she drew between her "dear, _dear_ Ellen", her "dearest Nel", and her sisters, Anne and Emily. The Three Brontës
Bridges and roads were impassable in many eastern and southern areas. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently all the government has to do is invoke the term ‘State Secrets’ and the lawsuit hits in impassable brick wall. Balloon Juice » 2006 » May
What we have is a highly productive aporia, an impassable pass-a point pregnant with literary meaning at which the text undermines its own foundations and collapses into a new, unanticipated flowering of meaning and significance.
At Kew, there can be as little as three feet of water during low tide, while a high tide results in Hammersmith Bridge becoming almost impassable.
In many cases that seems to be an impassable barrier.
The schools, proceeding from the illusions of sense, had carried this distinction very far; and had established the latter substances to be ingenerable, incorruptible, unalterable, impassable; and had assigned all the opposite qualities to the former. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
In winter roads were impassable and there was no green fodder to feed horses. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
The tops of the downs in Southern England still show the scars where primitive men fought their wars or grew their scanty crops; and in the lowland plains an unusual abundance of trees will show you where once a dense forest grew, or you may infer an impassable bog from a muddy field alongside some meandering brook. English Landscape and Personality
Thousands of homes were without electricity, many roads were impassable and hundreds of drivers were stranded. Times, Sunday Times
DURING the snow my daughter, a health visitor, did her rounds on foot as many side roads were impassable. The Sun
In the nineteenth century there were repeated complaints that the pavements of London were made impassable by children's shuttlecock and tipcat.
The path had been so choked with weeds it was virtually impassable.
They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods. WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
Water poured from the pipe and buckled the road making it impassable.
Again frustrated, he turned southwards, meaning to cross above the Rosaires Cataract, which was without doubt impassable to steamers. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
The drama's small port town is cut off by mountainous roads that are impassable in bad weather. Times, Sunday Times
In 1951 Louis did make an attempt to explore the southwestern region of Lake Rudolf, but found the roads nearly impassable. Ancestral Passions
The German advance had flowed around the marshes of the Pripet, and although technically there was a large salient almost 100 kilometers across, with only a slender German bridgehead on the southern side of the extension, there was no way the Red Army could take advantage of this gap, even had there been the resources to mount an offensive to the north of Kiev: they would have been driving directly into an impassable swamp. Deathride
They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods. WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
Dozens of roads were impassable and scores of drivers trapped. The Sun
Dismissed in four paragraphs with no analysis of the so-called impassable barriers, while the Idaho/Montana route is extensive in the number of turnouts needing to be constructed, the number of small bridges needing crossed, and the extent of modifications needed to complete the route. 20 blackbirds
There was an impassable barrier between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery.
Railway lines were washed away and roads were impassable. Times, Sunday Times
Residents across county Carlow woke yesterday morning to find roads completely impassable, as drifting snow wreaked havoc on routes across the region.
The boundary between these two was carefully guarded but was not impassable.
Deserts, impassable mountains, unfordable rivers, wild beasts, and unfriendly Indians were part of the commonly held picture.
Meanwhile, flood waters trapped commuters at City Gate, since the roads into the transit hub remained impassable for hours even after the rains had stopped.
It's just that there is a very large mountain in the way, with nearly impassable bamboo thickets on its lower flanks and nearly unscalable granite faces on its higher reaches.
Beyond there the gorge walls are often vertical or steep slopes of rubble, impassable whatever the season.
The alternative route down the locks became virtually impassable as the locks were allowed to deteriorate.
The second posta on the road to Buenos Ayres stands on its banks; a little above there is a ford for horses, where the water does not reach to the horses belly; but from that point, in its course to the sea, it is quite impassable, and hence makes a most useful barrier against the Indians. Chapter VI
She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys.
The mud made the roads impassable.
If, two thousand years ago, we had been permitted to watch the slow settling of the slime of those turbid rivers into the polluted sea, and the gaining upon its deep and fresh waters of the lifeless, impassable, unvoyageable plain, how little could we have understood the purpose with which those islands were shaped out of the void, and the torpid waters enclosed with their desolate walls of sand! The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
Unfortunately, he could also see it was blocked off by an impassable steel grate.
Much of the countryside is scattered with mines, and vast areas are inaccessible due to impassable roads.
Trails through the jungle growth were impassable by the muddy morass.
It is gated and has a high trellis fence all around with a barrier on top to make it impassable to cats from both inside and out.
Most roads are of rutted dirt and impassable when it rains. South Sudan Seeks Statehood, Leaders
While human bodies were subject to hunger and pain, prey to a wide range of diseases and, eventually, decay, those of the saints remained impassable and incorruptible, in Camporesi's memorable formulation.
The beginning of the rainy season has made some roads impassable and the presence of militias make it dangerous to travel.
The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
Part of the problem has been its terrain, with huge mountains and impassable jungles making places that are quite near to each other almost inaccessible. The Times Literary Supplement
In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man; or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impassable mountain, one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we can dimly study with these mortal eyes. Lay Morals
That this road was atop a ridge equally suggests its origin at a time when lower ground, to the east, was marshy and impassable.
The road was impassable and parts were submerged in 2ft of water.
He visualized the map of the El Alamein Line, where the Allies would make their last stand, This was one line Rommel could not circumvent, for at its southern end was the vast impassable Qattara Depression. The Key to Rebecca
Even today, no one has tried to construct a metalled road along the coast between Argos and Monemvasia: the hills are simply too steep and impassable.
The alternative route down the locks became virtually impassable as the locks were allowed to deteriorate.
These three removes put a gulf impassable between her utmost skill and the impassioned irresolution of that inscrutable Northern nature which is in nothing so masculine as its feminine reluctances and hesitations, or so little French as in those obscure emotions which the English poetry expressed with more than Gallic clearness, but which the French words always failed to convey. Literature and Life (Complete)
Cut by impassable canyons and unfordable rivers, gulches, and gullies, Brown's Park not only offered an ideal hideout to fugitives but also provided excellent winter and summer range for stolen stock.
They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods. WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
Path was synonymous with trace, another invaluable gift that pioneers used to penetrate the otherwise impassable.
But I bet she doesn't spin her son's decisions as an impassable ideological gulf and an affront to his mother.
Reef fish share genetic connections across what Darwin termed an 'impassable barrier', 5000km of deep ocean separating the eastern and central Pacific, according to a report by Smithsonian scientists in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. July 5th, 2006
Still, when it snowed the road had to be plowed or it was impassable, and in the summer the dust whirled.
It also means I know who is crossing the supposedly impassable mountain range and why and how that range can exist, and where the kero for lamps comes from, and... Gillpolack: I have all sorts of exciting things to r
It reminds me of Genoa, but that most of its streets are so steep as to be impassable for wheeled vehicles, and some of them are merely grand flights of stairs, arched over by dense foliaged trees, so as to look like some tropical, colored, deep colonnades. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Roads became impassable, communications were cut off and life in rural districts came to a standstill.
They unfortunately entered harsh and rugged Kurdistan just as winter was setting in, they tried to cross the mountains before the snows made them impassable but got bogged down halfway across.
Our route to this place was equally grand and experimental; grand, as to the width of the road, and beauty of the surrounding country -- but experimental, inasmuch as a part of the _route royale_ had been broken up, and rendered wholly impassable for carriages of any weight. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man; or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impassable mountain, one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we can dimly study with these mortal eyes. Lay Morals
The river formed an impassable barrier for migrating animals.
He was strongly supported by local timber and mining workers, whose work was stymied by impassable roads and bridges leading to the timber and mining areas.
By November they had to return to winter quarters because most roads were impassable and because there was no forage. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
boreen," and concluded that, as it was nearly impassable, it must lead to the home of the Irreconcilable. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
The only way to reach the building was by airboat, piloted by an Everglades boatman, as all streets were impassable from fallen trees, flood waters or both.
Our states emblemed in the lights of the valleys and the mountain ridge as the much talked of "impassable barrier. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
This range of hills was impassable for early settlers and stopped westward expansion.
From this grove we travelled as before in single file over an immense expanse of lava of the kind called pahoehoe, or satin rock, to distinguish it from the a-a, or jagged, rugged, impassable rock. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
He went out to look and saw that the front of the school was covered with water and impassable.
We are not prepared for snow (though we should be) so airports shut down and ungritted roads become lethal or impassable.
The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
The rarity of paragraphs and unbearably long sentences also add to this constraint; the page is an impassable, unending block.
The fine weather helped to bring out the crowds and the street was almost impassable to traffic as people flocked the road and footpaths.
Large as the Yarrow was, and it appeared impassable by any living creature, Hector had made his escape early in the morning, had swam the river, and was sitting, 'like a drookit hen,' on a knoll at the east end of the house, awaiting my arrival with great impatience. Anecdotes of Dogs
The latter, whose anger was unbounded, had seized a poignard at his girdle, and was about to have rushed on the impassable aggressor, when a guttural cry, like that of the _cilguero_, (a kind of linnet of The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
And indeed — though I now know that Allah is everywhere and in all things — there were times when the distance between Allah and I seemed so great, so impassable, that I thought my prayers at salat were lost in the hell-red, befouled city sky, diverted from Mecca and stolen by nefarious djinn. The Parable of the Spider
The tense 1953 film has four desperate men delivering two truckloads of extremely explosive nitroglycerine via a nearly impassable South American jungle road.
The tense 1953 film has four desperate men delivering two truckloads of extremely explosive nitroglycerine via a nearly impassable South American jungle road.
Eyre thought he was hemmed in by a circular or horse-shoe-shaped salt depression, which he called Lake Torrens; because, wherever he tried to push northwards, north-westwards, eastwards, or north-eastwards, he invariably came upon the shores of one of these objectionable and impassable features. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
The new line of defense stretched across a thirty-mile gap between the sea and the impassable Qattara Depression, and if that line fell there would be no more defenses, Egypt would be Rommel's. The Key to Rebecca
According to our author, who foresaw "No Man's Land" between the two opposing forces, "there will be formed a certain zone absolutely impassable in consequence of the terrible fire with which it will be inundated from a short distance from each side. Face to Face with Kaiserism
Similarly, the servient owner can concrete the surface provided that this does not make the way impassable with frequent flooding. Times, Sunday Times
Still, when it snowed the road had to be plowed or it was impassable, and in the summer the dust whirled.
The worst snow in years made the roads impassable and aid agencies struggled to reach the refugees, who were left with very little food and fuel. Times, Sunday Times
Roads also form impassable barriers for 60 per cent of wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
We contemplated having to prusik back up the narrow pitch, should the wallows be impassable, and soon persuaded ourselves to leave it for another day.
The river's broad mudflats were thought completely impassable.
Water poured from the pipe and buckled the road making it impassable.
They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods. WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
Tree limbs littered flooded roadways, some of which were impassable.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash in nearly impassable terrain near the Courthouse Bay boat basin at Camp Lejeune.
Rangers reached the scene by helicopter because the roads are impassable due to heavy rains. Times, Sunday Times
Scores of people were still stranded across the region as police and rescue services battled to reach them, with many roads impassable. Times, Sunday Times
Escape is almost impossible as the saturated mud sucks at the feet and impassable waterways are formed.
A bad wet spell can make the roads and skidder trails impassable. Hard Work at a Cutting Edge
Its rainy season renders roads impassable and requires all aid to be delivered by plane. Christianity Today
The river's broad mudflats were thought completely impassable.
In spite of an interminable row of contrabassi, with which a conductor usually coquettes at musical festivals, his performance was so expressionless and inane that I turned away in disgust as from an alarming and repulsive problem, and desisted from all attempts to explain the impassable gulf which, as I again perceived, yawned between my own vivid and imaginative conception of this work and the only living presentations of it which I had ever heard. My Life — Volume 1
Its rivers and roads are impassable for most of the year, and small aeroplanes are often the only way in or out. Times, Sunday Times
The avenue had never been paved, and deep mud made it impassable in winter.
Leath said many people asked why the roads were referred to as impassable or treacherous instead of closed. The Times-Journal: News
But that morning the route was virtually impassable. Times, Sunday Times
The mountain sides were so steep in some places that we were barely able to climb them; many of the wadies, washed by winter torrents, were next to being impassable; and when our way led along the sides of precipitous slopes I shuddered to think of the consequences of a misstep upon the part of my horse. My Three Days in Gilead
There it will be crushed to form an aggregate base to repair a 6km section of track that has become deeply rutted and virtually impassable.
The cyclepath along the creek has been impassable since Monday but I still wasn't expecting the water to get to the road level. MP3Board.com
Part of the problem has been its terrain, with huge mountains and impassable jungles making places that are quite near to each other almost inaccessible. The Times Literary Supplement
The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
Well, on we go, -- driving across what you would call impassable streets, and lo! we are wedged up in a crowd, -- and such a crowd, -- a crowd of all nations. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland
In Wales, dozens of roads were impassable last night and a number of bridges were closed to vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
Luke 16, clearly illustrates that an impassable gulf separates the dead from the living.
Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
Some of the roads remain impassable because they are covered with water.
Quite apart from the major wetlands, every valley bottom below a certain contour line must have been soggy and at times impassable.
The waterway became impassable for a stretch, and the men pulled into the bank. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Unfortunately, he could also see it was blocked off by an impassable steel grate.
In 1996, Weatherford made the first of many sojourns to Mongolia, riding in jeeps and on horses across nearly impassable terrain.
The meeting heard the stepping stones across the river had become almost impassable in recent years and that a footbridge was the only sensible solution.
This leaves a balance of 47 outstanding problems, ranging from near impassable quagmires of mud and bovine excrement to dangerously collapsed or broken stiles, many illegally obstructed by barbed wire.
Here, an avalanche of huge rocks, trees, and snows had been precipitated from the summit of the mountains, and the sharp fragments left in the route, if slightly disturbed, would immediately resume their headlong course downward, and presented a barrier not only impassable for horses, but even for men. Life in the Rocky Mountains
First a load of rocks had to be dropped on the drive, turning it from dangerous to pretty much impassable.
A 5km stretch of road to the Shipka Peak in Stara Planina was made impassable Monday night by trees felled by the wind and snowdrifts, but reopened to traffic Tuesday afternoon.
A huge tree had fallen across the road in the vicinity of Nardia's house, and the road was impassable.
A secondary school in Trowbridge was forced to close on Wednesday when flash floods left corridors impassable.
The equatorial region of the earth, otherwise known as the torrid clime, was considered impassable by ship. Christians With Closed Hearts And Minds
Instantaneous fuses and gas or smoke shells made possible heavy and lethal barrages that did not make ground impassable to assaulting infantry.

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