How to Use impasse in a Sentence

impasse

noun

• She had reached an impasse in her career.
• An arbitrator was called in to break the impasse.
• Which means there’s no end in sight to the GOP’s impasse.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• The two countries are now seeking a way around the impasse.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
• And for the past year or so it was always shadowed with the impasse over kids.
  — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The impasse over this issue ran right up to the deadline.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• Sources say the impasse stems from the fact that there were two teams that worked on the movie at different times.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023
• That was good enough at the time, the museum has said, and the two sides remain at an impasse.
  — Sean Elder, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2023
• Some have floated the prospects of Democrats intervening in the melee to end the impasse.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 5 Jan. 2023
• At the time, the nation seemed to be at an unconscionable impasse.
  — Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• The current contract was inked in April 2021 after a year-and-a-half impasse.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2022
• At this impasse, some of the group flew back to the United States, some headed to Argentina.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• That impasse is forcing Johnson to reach across the aisle to keep the government open.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• That would allow the House to reopen after a two-week impasse.
  — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• Back in 2011, the debt limit impasse cost the nation its AAA rating.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The dispute seemed to arrive at something of an impasse.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 26 July 2023
• This impasse held up the adoption of the meeting agenda until the eve of the final day of talks on Thursday.
  — Bhasker Tripathi, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
• Qatar says cease-fire talks are nearing an impasse, and other news.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• At this point, breaking out of the impasse might not be possible without a bit of chaos.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024
• During the last shutdown, the record-long impasse that began in late 2018, stocks didn’t just survive.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
• Just under the surface, though, is a nation at an impasse.
  — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• McCarthy’s allies and critics have huddled on the House floor to hash out the disconnect and find a way to break the impasse.
  — Lisa Hagan, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
• For a breath, both players stood at an impasse, wondering what to do next.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Saquon Barkley and the New York Giants remain at an impasse after a key deadline.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• The financial strife stretches beyond the workers and studios at the center of the impasse.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• If workers and companies are still at an impasse then, Smart-TD and the other 11 unions will go on strike.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2022
• The streamer and the festival have been an impasse due to the country’s rigid windowing rules.
  — chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• And this is where the real impasse between Molly and Nicholas arises.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
• The impasse showed voters were split on the board's conservative shift in recent years.
  — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
• But since then, both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of making new and unacceptable demands, and the talks appear to be at an impasse.
  — Josef Federman and Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024