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Example sentences for "impassable"

Lexicographically close words:
impartiality; impartiall; impartially; imparting; imparts; impasse; impassibility; impassible; impassion; impassioned
  1. The ways had been rendered impassable by the spreading inundations of so many rivers, and the whole country was flooded to such a degree, that not a turf appeared on which the horsemen might lie down, or their horses take pasture.

  2. Continual rain had transformed the whole country into a marsh, so that it seemed impassable to a waggon.

  3. Soon they came to an impassable rapid, and Rolf had his first taste of a real carry or portage.

  4. We were in a barren country, with a large force of the enemy in front of us, a large and now impassable river between us, and no news from our train or from our base of operations for twelve days.

  5. The interjacent space was, however, impassable to any except those familiar with its trackless rocks.

  6. When this fir had reached the height of eight or ten feet, a fire ran through, and killed nearly all of it, and another growth of fir had sprung up, making the descent to the river an almost impassable tangled mass.

  7. These mountain ranges were rendered impassable for pack trains or other modes of transportation.

  8. People come here to see and to be seen; and, moreover, this is neutral ground, where so-called honest women can meet those notorious characters from whom they are elsewhere separated by an impassable abyss.

  9. This removes the high and holy God infinitely above the contamination of all evil, above all contact with the sin of the world, and shows an impassable gulf between the purity of the Creator and the pravity of the creature.

  10. The rebels could not stand a moment before that impetuous onset, but broke and ran for the cover of the white-oaks, leaving the ground of the conflict almost impassable with the terrible piles of their dead and wounded.

  11. These forests grow out of a wet, peaty soil,--in many places impassable on account of its boggy nature; and of this character is almost the whole surface of the different islands.

  12. The waves closed immediately behind him, offering an impassable barrier to his pursuers, who could only vent their fury in idle curses!

  13. Here there are no crossroads to break it up; only bridle-paths or rough cart tracks, often impassable in winter by reason of bogs, connect the lonely Forest lodges with each other.

  14. As to maps, the highway once left, they are a delusion and a snare, giving paths that lead nowhither, or worse, land the traveller in an impassable morass.

  15. On one side of the stream, was an impassable area covered with tree trunks criss-crossed and piled two or three deep by some snow-slide of former years.

  16. Indian trails exist in almost every valley where an available pass leads over the summit, and where there are no trails the probability is that the valley is blind, or, in other words, leads into an impassable mountain wall.

  17. On our way up the Bow River, Peyto had made exploring excursions into several tributary valleys, but in every case these had proved to be hemmed in by precipitous mountain walls, and guarded at the ends by impassable cliffs or large glaciers.

  18. The fire had run through after the tote-road was built, so that the fallen timber now rendered it nearly impassable in many places.

  19. Then another long interval northwards to the Athabasca Pass is said by the Indians to offer an impassable barrier to men and horses.

  20. We were alternately tormented by the fear of finding impassable precipices of rock, or glaciers rent by deep crevasses, and cheered on by the hope of an easy slope of snow or scree, whereby a safe descent would be offered.

  21. This impassable barrier seemed to curve around at the head of the valley, and, turning to the south, join the ridge on the opposite side.

  22. That in itself is enough to fix an impassable barrier between Goldsmith and the official criticism of his day.

  23. It is this that puts an impassable barrier between Dryden and the men of his own day, or for a century to come.

  24. It must have been nearly impassable in winter; but now, in midsummer, it was all the brighter and really romantic.

  25. Among the endless stream of supplies were many special and ingenious conveyances for transporting guns, provisions, and soldiers over the otherwise impassable snows of this terrible region.

  26. Heavy rains and consequent floods make the country almost impassable for the movement of big guns or large bodies of troops in the face of a determined defense.

  27. We have so far brought to view two powers, infinite mind in the universe and finite mind in the world, and between them a distance immeasurable and impassable from the finite side.

  28. A strange system--to perpetuate between rulers and ruled an impassable gulf!

  29. Ever since Mr. Rudyard Kipling wrote a famous line it has become a commonplace of popular thought in England and America that there is an East and a West, and an impassable gulf between them.

  30. Miss Craigmiles could have but one object in seeking him, he decided; and he would have given worlds to be able to set the business affair and the sentimental on opposite sides of an impassable chasm.

  31. For though nothing is impassable to the soul, but all things are pervious to it and like highways, yet this is only whilst the soul does not see them.

  32. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.

  33. The knights had regarded the fosse that had been cut at such an enormous expenditure of labour as forming an altogether impassable obstruction, and were dismayed at seeing the progress made in filling it up.

  34. Through the transparent elementary gases radiant heat was found to pass as through a vacuum, while many of the compound gases presented almost impassable obstacles to the calorific-waves.

  35. Man the object is separated by an impassable gulf from man the subject.

  36. The convection current of pure air therefore passed upwards among the inert particles, dragging them after it right and left, but forming between them an impassable black partition.

  37. Dense forests, impassable morasses, and sedgy streams always bounded the immediate prospect, and the clearings were few and far between.

  38. The streets were almost impassable from the crowds who thronged them.

  39. So they took care to make the narrow seas an impassable barrier to the enemy by harrying the covering fleet and making it hopeless for Parma even to think of sending his transports to sea.

  40. The upper deck was impassable from end to end.

  41. Our horses were completely done out with going down and up the precipitous ravines, and the ravines became at last quite impassable for horses.

  42. Late rains had flooded the Kale Valley, and as late as the end of November the country was impassable to anything but an elephant.

  43. I was on a promontory, the sides of which were indented by long ravines that were impassable except near their heads.

  44. From the Bay, the south rim was regular and impassable all the way round to the narrow Saddle, which connected it to the mainland.

  45. Crawling along, unpacking and carrying, and packing again, we toiled up and down the interminable length of three almost impassable miles.

  46. But an impassable cliff prevented me from working around to that point.

  47. I came to a deep brush-choked gorge, impassable at that point.

  48. I was afraid this short cut to the lower projecting cape of rock would end suddenly on some impassable break or cliff, but though the travel grew rough we still kept on.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impassable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dense; impenetrable; impermeable; impervious; inaccessible; indomitable; insuperable; insurmountable; invincible; thick; unconquerable