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
• 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
• Such turmoil would make the prospect of holding an interstate matchup an impossibility, right?
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2020
• The pandemic made runway shows—like all live events—an impossibility.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2020
• Remarkably, all three impossibility proofs appeared on the same page.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• The history of mathematics is rich in proofs of impossibility.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• The overarching situation would have figured to make an in-person event for players a near-impossibility.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• It’s not at all an impossibility: Microbes are known to live in the harshest environments here on Earth, such as in the crushing depths of the sea or in acidic volcanic lakes.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2020
• And the teams affected are tasked with another impossibility: Hurry up and wait while contact tracing occurs, and then ramp back up and play a bunch of games in a short period of time.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• Health experts have warned that prisons are among the most dangerous places for the spread of coronavirus, due to the impossibility of social distancing and poor ventilation.
  — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2020
• If Biden is winning in, say, two or three of these battleground states on election night, a second Trump term becomes close to a statistical impossibility.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• Recognizing the near impossibility of imposing direct control on such a diverse population, the British operated through a system of indirect rule in which indigenous authorities maintained power but served at the pleasure of the crown.
  — Uzodinma Iweala, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
• However, the pandemic’s aftermath intensified this pre-existing problem, pushing recruitment and retention of doctors to the brink of impossibility.
  — Dr. Frances Quee, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024