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Example sentences for "impasse"

Lexicographically close words:
impartiall; impartially; imparting; imparts; impassable; impassibility; impassible; impassion; impassioned; impassive
  1. In 1991, the political impasse between the interim government and the rebel leader Charles Taylor prevented restoration of normal economic life.

  2. However, the continuing constitutional impasse between English- and French-speaking areas has observers discussing a possible split in the confederation; foreign investors are becoming edgy.

  3. In this street is the hospital's main entrance, and through its gate we look across the garden, that stretches back to the former entrance in Impasse de Bearn; now opened only to carry out for burial the bodies of those dying in the hospital.

  4. It was a portion of the ancient Convent of the Feuillantines, left untouched by the Revolution, at Impasse des Feuillantines, No.

  5. Bellevue, or she would have to remain at the Impasse Ronsin.

  6. Tardivel had lived in the Rue de Vaugirard, close to the Impasse Ronsin, and he seemed to know the Steinheil house perfectly well both inside and out.

  7. Many foreigners came to the Impasse Ronsin, but I found that the French had the most enthusiasm, spontaneity and originality of thought.

  8. In the Impasse there was an immense crowd, and another near the Ecole Militaire, near which the d'Arlons lived.

  9. This proves that your mother only decided to put up at the house in the Impasse Ronsin after you had pressed her?

  10. At last, late in the evening, policemen cleared the Impasse Ronsin and the storm died away.

  11. Naturally enough he had not wanted to remain at the house in the Impasse Ronsin.

  12. England, on Saturdays], for when I left the Impasse Ronsin at about 11.

  13. Towards the end of December, the furniture at the Impasse Ronsin was sold, at my request, after I had ordered part of it to be sent to England.

  14. And he told me that a man called Allaire, who had already been denounced as one of the Impasse Ronsin murderers in an anonymous letter received by M.

  15. My mother had settled down for good in her pretty chalet at Beaucourt, but she frequently came to Paris and stayed either at the house of my younger sister, or with me in the Impasse Ronsin.

  16. I have just heard the gate of the Impasse being shut.

  17. Quite a number of such comfortable English folk were now looking forward to going and seeing Nancy Dampier in her new home--of which the very address was quaint and unusual, for Dampier's studio was situated Impasse des Nonnes.

  18. She now told herself that she had to face the possibility, nay the probability, that her husband had met with some serious accident on his way to the Impasse des Nonnes.

  19. He saw the Impasse Fautet, and glanced at the drawn blinds of Numero 2 bis.

  20. Only princes and farmers-general could indulge in such magnificence, and the fame of the Impasse would be undying.

  21. They might have danced for love at the Impasse du Doyenné, but Schaunard and Marcel had nothing to offer them to compare with the splendour of the viveurs which was laid at their feet.

  22. The Rue and Impasse de Doyenné are the only streets within this sombre, deserted block, the inhabitants of which are probably phantoms, for one never sees a soul there.

  23. As for entertainments, they came a long way behind the costume ball of the Impasse du Doyenné.

  24. This was the task upon which he was ostensibly engaged when he joined for an hour or two the other workers in the Impasse du Doyenné.

  25. To make use of the field-concept in this other way is one of the tasks we have to undertake if we are to overcome the impasse in which present-day scientific cognition finds itself.

  26. The continuing constitutional impasse between English- and French-speaking areas is raising the possibility of a split in the federation, making foreign investors somewhat edgy.

  27. However, the continuing constitutional impasse between English- and French-speaking areas has observers discussing a possible split in the confederation; foregn investors have become edgy.

  28. But all his thought led him to an impasse at that time, and that impasse was the feeling that he was a criminal and a fugitive, and that he had no right to tie up innocent lives with his.

  29. Moreover, the continuing constitutional impasse between English- and French-speaking areas has observers discussing a possible split in the confederation; foreign investors have become edgy.

  30. He gave a great and necessary impetus to its study, but he outlined no directions for its significant application: indeed, by following out his original concepts one is led into the impasse of Neo-Impressionism.

  31. In the classes of Bouguereau and Carriere at the Beaux-Arts he had seen to what an impasse a too great love of antiquity would lead.

  32. The attitudes toward publicity were already noticeable when, on 11 October, Fahy suggested to Truman some possible solutions to the impasse between the committee and the Army.

  33. In face of this impasse between the secretary and the Army staff there slowly evolved what proved to be a new racial policy.

  34. The Army's leaders and the secretary's civilian aide had reached an impasse on the question of policy even before the country entered the war.

  35. McAuliffe listed the familiar problems that would accrue to the Far East commanders from this decision, but he was unable to break the impasse in Washington.

  36. The continuing constitutional impasse between English- and French-speaking areas is raising the possibility of a split in the confederation, making foreign investors somewhat edgy.

  37. When first he had returned to Paris, he had rented a very large studio in the Impasse des Bourdonnais; but he had moved to the Quai de Bourbon from motives of economy.

  38. Miss Regan’s own studio was in an Impasse about ten minutes away; probably her friend lived with her.

  39. He crept stealthily to the end of the Impasse Saint-Mittre.

  40. Since the death of his father, a journeyman tanner who had left him as sole heritage the hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre, he had never been known to have either relatives or friends.

  41. At the end of the path, at the entrance of the Impasse Saint-Mittre, he fancied he could see aunt Dide standing erect, white and rigid like the statue of a saint, while she witnessed his agony from a distance.

  42. For some minutes he would remain watching her vague figure as it disappeared in the darkness, then, slowly descending, he regained the Impasse Saint-Mittre.

  43. So it was at a run that he dived into the Impasse Saint-Mittre, and reached his mother's house, which he had not visited for many a long year.

  44. As he was emerging from the Impasse Saint-Mittre with hesitating steps, wondering whether it would not be dangerous to solicit Silvere's pardon from the prefect, he saw Aristide prowling about the timber-yard.

  45. Provided she were left the hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre, Adelaide would have sold all Plassans.

  46. The hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre remained closed and preserved its secrets.

  47. From that date, whenever Macquart reappeared, it was thought, as no one then ever saw the young woman, that she was living with him in the hovel of the Impasse Saint-Mittre.

  48. The hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre consisted, in the first place, of a large room into which the street door opened.

  49. She had stiffened and hardened in her hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre, that dismal silent hole where she lived entirely alone on potatoes and dry vegetables, and which she did not leave once in the course of a month.

  50. Thus there was the Aire Saint-Mittre and the Impasse Saint-Mittre.

  51. The impasse du Cimetière and the schools we see there are on the site of an old graveyard.

  52. Impasse St-Fiacre, the word saint cut away at the Revolution, where dwelt the first hirer-out of cabs; hence the term fiacre.

  53. Rue de Jarente, so named from the Prior of the monastic institution, Ste-Catherine du Val des Escholiers, erewhile here, shows us an old fountain in the Impasse de la Poissonnerie.

  54. The impasse at 37, in olden times Fosse aux chiens, was a pig-market where in the fourteenth century heretics were burnt.

  55. In Impasse Maubert dwelt Ste-Croix, the lover and accomplice of the poisoner Mme de Brinvilliers, and in Rue des Grand Degrés Voltaire in his youth worked in a lawyer's office.

  56. Twas one night after leaving the Impasse Mauvaise Langue that, feeling both cold and dry, I turned into a Tavern that was open late, for a measure of Hot Spiced Wine, as a Night-cap.

  57. Lanyard grumbled resignedly; and tossing the man a five-franc piece, applied his knuckles to the door of an outwardly commonplace hôtel particulier in the rue Chaptal between the impasse of the Grand Guignol and the rue Pigalle.

  58. It was a dark night, and in the impasse there was but one lamp which stood near Bertin's door.

  59. There was still that light in the impasse by which my poor friend Vaucher had seen Madame Bertin weeping; but from the windows of the house there came none.

  60. The one lamp in the impasse showed her my uniform, and she breathed like one who had been running.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impasse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.