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Example sentences for "impossible for"

  • It is interesting in this case to note that the child maintained that she belonged to a church, which made it impossible for her to tell lies.

  • The bearing which the accident at 18 had upon the case it is impossible for us to estimate.

  • Given splendid chances to use his special capacities, his other qualities made it impossible for him to take advantage of them.

  • Certainly it would be impossible for camels.

  • Besides, I could tell from the gingerly way he put his feet down that the burning sand would soon make it impossible for him to go any farther.

  • By now it will have become clear to you why it is impossible for me to pay you five hundred roubles per runaway soul: for by now you will have gathered the fact that I am not sufficiently rich.

  • Not a thought should I give to myself, for my career is over, seeing that it is impossible for me to re-enter the Civil Service and I am good for nothing else.

  • In short, for some time Chichikov made it impossible for smugglers to earn a living.

  • But, as it is impossible for stupidity to prevail forever, the government has felt the necessity of revising the work of its agent, and as I write the arches of the bridge are being raised.

  • We are yet only in the third period of economic evolution, in the third age of the constitution of labor,--that is, in a period when it is impossible for labor to be attractive.

  • Nevertheless it is impossible for us to retreat: it is necessary to produce, produce always, produce cheaply; otherwise, the existence of society is compromised.

  • And as regards the second," broke in Bickley, "we did not do so because it is impossible for men to transfer themselves to other places through space either with or without their bodies.

  • The Scriptures plainly declare, Mr. Latham, that it is impossible for a man to be saved in his natural state.

  • He says it is impossible for him to come tonight," said Maimie, putting the note into her bosom.

  • Yes, that is it," said Harry, "and so that made it impossible for Pharaoh to do anything else.

  • Several of them deliberated on a plan of attack, and were in hopes that they should be able to raise such a storm as would make it impossible for him to remain at the head of affairs.

  • Unhappily his physical infirmities made it impossible for him to reside at Whitehall.

  • It was as impossible for him to live without doing mischief as for an old dram drinker or an old opium eater to live without the daily dose of poison.

  • As they walked about the precincts of the house, Funkelstein asked many questions of Hugh, which his entire ignorance of domestic architecture made it impossible for him to answer.

  • It is impossible for me to say yet; but I am quite willing to teach him if you like.

  • The almost passionate earnestness with which David spoke, would alone have made it impossible for Hugh to reply at once.

  • You have done your best to convince me of that, by making it impossible for me to feel that this house is in any sense my home.

  • It is impossible for me to guess,' said I.

  • Miss Woodhouse, it is impossible for me to express--I hope you will believe--Excuse me for being so entirely without words.

  • As she thought less of his inebriety, she thought more of his inconstancy and presumption; and with fewer struggles for politeness, replied, "It is impossible for me to doubt any longer.

  • But with all the hopes of cheerfulness, and all the present comfort of delay, there was still such an evil hanging over her in the hour of explanation with Harriet, as made it impossible for Emma to be ever perfectly at ease.

  • While her dear father lived, any change of condition must be impossible for her.

  • He expressed his regret that his duty made it impossible for him to indulge his private partialities.

  • But it is impossible for me to cite all the pamphlets from which I have formed my notion of the state of parties at this time.

  • He perceived, not only that it would be impossible for him to carry over all the three regiments, as he had hoped, but that he was himself in a situation of considerable peril.

  • It may have been that she had another motive and was determined to keep her humble worshiper at her feet, and to render it impossible for him to make the changes toward which he had felt himself driven.

  • She has no claims on me and has said things which make it impossible for me to speak to her again, but I shall insist on your visiting and treating her kindly.

  • The ridicule and contempt were of course expressed in a respectful form, making it impossible for him to ask wherein he was to blame.

  • If we were to walk in together like this it would be next to impossible for you to explain how it all came about.

  • It is impossible for you to pass the night thus.

  • Nevertheless, it is impossible for me to refrain from congratulating you.

  • Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia.

  • The object in selecting reading for children is to make it impossible for them to see any evidence except the best.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impossible for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after what has happened; but then; but was; cannot attempt; chief good; great ascetic; higher type; impossible for; many localities; many months; much attention; near each; nice brown; pass from; pleaded guilty; said then; seated upon; shall come; sixteen shillings; struck him; well expressed; whatever thou