How to Use impossibility in a Sentence

impossibility

noun

• The blizzard made travel an impossibility.
• Intrigued by the sheer impossibility of the task, Strike agrees to devote one year to the case.
  — Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• This seemed like an impossibility a few weeks back, but the Bears are on a roll right now.
  — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• But, at the same time, the very impossibility of this project weighed on him throughout the war and for the remainder of his life.
  — Dallas News, 28 June 2019
• That’s the impossibility of the professor and the politician: neither has a ground to stand on; both must reach for the sky.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
• The impossibility of reversing the past and restoring life to the dead only adds to the force of their desire to act.
  — Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• What these trips had in common was the sense of impossibility that lingered at the start.
  — Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• Malone would love to sell their home, but that seems an impossibility with the dump next door.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• For some work may become an impossibility, but for those who can work there are ways to get back out there.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• The rebel slaves on the ship had a righteous cause and a sound strategy; they were undone by the impossibility of finding a safe place to land.
  — Justin Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• And perhaps impossibility is as good a place as any to live out the remainder of my days.
  — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• And yet, the thought of owning a home in Los Angeles was an impossibility to him.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• And that doesn't seem like too much of an impossibility.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022
• In fact, as Lorentz told Uhlenbeck, the surface of the electron would have to be moving 10 times faster than the speed of light, a flat impossibility.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
• The lid was propped open — something that had once seemed like an impossibility.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
• These new players see a max-out not as an impossibility, but as a rite of passage.
  — Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
• For now, impossibility keeps me from the quandary of having to decide.
  — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• But the near-impossibility of reaching the airport has meant that many of the departing flights have left with empty seats.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• This, in short, is a call for more theatre, and theatre is about all Democrats can hope to wring from the process given the impossibility of Trump’s conviction.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
• About 40 minutes into the trip, the bus stopped to take on yet more passengers, even though this seemed an impossibility.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
• The dizzying ascent is a reminder of what can happen to a group of players when the walls of impossibility crumble.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
• The stream of new cases showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders.
  — Raf Casert and Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021
• The record of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos first entering the market in 1990 points to an impossibility at the heart of Montañez’s story all along.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• Getting her from wheelchair to car was a lengthy ordeal, the cozy back seat an impossibility.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
• The canvassers sought a state takeover of the city's elections, which Brater called a practical impossibility.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2022
• These impossibility results were not the end of the story.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022
• In that last line, GPT-3 made physical the fact of that impossibility, by referring to the hand—my hand—that existed both then and now.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Sep. 2023
• Nothing seems more hopeless than trying to get out of a black hole—in fact, this impossibility is what defines it.
  — Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
• There’s a nihilism that Polanski’s own worldview coaxed out of him, a message about the near impossibility of doing good in a dark world.
  — Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
• And livestock need to eat them every day — a logistical impossibility for the majority of the world’s ruminants, which graze freely in pastures.
  — Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024