How to Use impassable in a Sentence

impassable

adjective

• 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
• 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 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
• Was the path ahead impassable on wheels, so infants had to be carried?
  — Peter Maass, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
• Roads controlled by gangs are now impassable and those that dare risk their lives.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• 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
• Heavy rainfall last week made the roads leading to her home impassable.
  — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 31 May 2021
• Most of it is impassable scrub but the coastline is beautiful and the birds are unafraid.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2021
• Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Streets were impassable and mayors on the island urged people to stay home.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
• During the search, police said the search area was hilly with lots of standing water and some roads were impassable due to snow.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• An impassable thicket of reedy bamboo hemmed us in on either side; the canopy was low above our heads.
  — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Through it all, Grygorovych and the rest of GSC never panicked, even when the path forward looked impassable.
  — WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
• The heat is extreme, and the boats appear to always be further than imagined along the rocky, impassable riverbed.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• The storm Tuesday made roads impassable, washed out bridges and swamped homes and businesses.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 20 Aug. 2021
• The highway east and west of Detroit had become impassable because of the fire, falling trees and rock slides.
  — Jake Thomas, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2020
• Their trucks can't even get to some clients, as flooding and power outages made some roads and bridges in the region impassable.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The ice trapped many residents in their homes and rendered roads impassable.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
• Folau was anxious to retrace his steps to search for his sister’s car, but the roads were impassable.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Many roads were impassable, and at least seven bridges were washed out near Plainfield, according to the AP.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• Traffic near the river backed up, and roads became impassable.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024