How to Use impermissible in a Sentence

impermissible

adjective

• Such behavior is impermissible under the new guidelines.
• That’s the standard amount for impermissible use of the helmet for a first-time offender.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 13 Oct. 2019
• Both of them said their programs have now made clear that sports gambling is impermissible.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2023
• Mickelson blurted out the truth about the Saudis, which appears to be the impermissible thing.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• For the most part, Judge Suddaby found that many of those restrictions were likely to be impermissible.
  — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The fine is the standard amount for a second-time offender for a hit on a defenseless player or impermissible use of a helmet.
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• But the embraces between the prosecutors and the judge drew ire from court watchers and the defense bar, which saw it as an example of impermissible bias.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
• A couple from Washington state challenged the tax as impermissible under the 16th Amendment, but the Supreme Court appeared likely to leave it in place.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 May 2024
• There were groups in Myanmar that begged Facebook to stop what many people — and indeed, Facebook’s own rules — regarded as the kind of speech that should be impermissible.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• That would not, on its face, rule the language impermissible as part of the reconciliation bill.
  — Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News, 12 May 2017
• The story of Jesus and the adulteress is clearly impermissible to the Party in its original form.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• The league dubbed the topic impermissible and said that persons asking such questions would be subject to discipline.
  — Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Keenan wrote that the school's rationale was based on an impermissible gender stereotype.
  — CBS News, 15 June 2022
• In the Missouri case, a federal judge blocked the state law in March, calling it an impermissible attempt to preempt federal law and a threat to public safety.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• When does an op-ed that Weintraub or the mavens of Silicon Valley disagree with or don’t like become an impermissible effort to mislead?
  — Hans A. Von Spakovsky, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• That recording, which appeared to be taken from inside the bargaining room, Trull said, underscores why the Zoom streams are impermissible.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
• Since the advisors paid the bill, the meal was considered an impermissible benefit.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 20 Nov. 2020
• In the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, the Court ruled for the baker on the ground that the Colorado civil-rights commission had displayed an impermissible animus against his faith.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Her case is a complicated one, given that the sentence isn’t just for impermissible withdrawals.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 June 2024
• Trump raised new objections to the document requests on March 31, which James' office said is impermissible.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2022
• The Supreme Court has consistently — on matters ranging from free speech to religious liberty and beyond — granted the state an impermissible amount of power to fight the scourge of drugs.
  — David French, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
• But the impermissible benefits that long got college sports programs in trouble—cash from boosters, fast cars and the like—are now allowed under college football’s new rules.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Most centered around hundreds of impermissible phone calls to recruits.
  — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• Each of these seizures comes with the same impermissible erosion of the presumption of innocence that Justice Ginsburg identified in Nelson.
  — Perry Grossman, Slate Magazine, 28 Apr. 2017
• There are rules for practice times, rules for travel, for summer jobs, for meals, for scholarships, for impermissible benefits, for social media, for the size of media guides and the amount of color photographs in them.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• The tweet was later deleted, but lawmakers shared screenshots and said Jakows appeared to be describing what would amount to an impermissible gift under the legislature’s ethics rules.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• Monday's ruling upheld the challenges in only one instance, declaring House District 90, in the Fort Worth area, to be an impermissible racial gerrymander.
  — NBC News, 25 June 2018
• The issue in the case is whether the coach's prayers amounted to a permissible exercise of the coach's rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, or whether the prayers were an impermissible establishment of religion by the government.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
• Additionally, the report concluded that the Dolphins again had impermissible contact with Brady and his agent, Don Yee, during and after the 2021 season.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
• In Xi’s China, the invisible line that separates what is permissible from what is impermissible is moving; with every new arrest, the party-state seems to shift it.
  — Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024