How to Use impregnable in a Sentence

impregnable

adjective

• Outside Yellowknife, the fires had jumped first one impregnable firebreak, then another and then another.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• From the Army’s point of view, the moon was a fortress made impregnable by distance—a huge advantage.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2022
• But it was no longer seen as impregnable and, decades later, would be sacked again.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
• The walls seem impregnable, and strong enough to last another 1,000 years.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• The Titanic was the largest ocean liner in service at the time, thought to be nearly impregnable.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 31 May 2023
• The Titanic, thought to be nearly impregnable when it was built, was the largest ocean liner in service at the time.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• The moat wasn't meant to be impregnable, but rather to slow down an attacker and give the defender time to prepare.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
• To be sure, the economic wall around Russia is not impregnable.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• The biggest surprise has been that their bubbles are far from impregnable.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• The walls are impregnable, but thanks to Tyrion, the Unsullied were able to sneak in using his secret passage cove and the sewage system.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2017
• Even as the Zoo Tower remained impregnable, the Soviets were able to fly their flag over the Reichstag.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2018
• Matt Murray was impregnable in the first contest, but the Flyers broke down his defenses often in the second one.
  — Tim Hackett, SI.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• The problem is the U.S. intelligence agencies may not know where all of them are and some may be in hardened bunkers that might be impregnable, Maxwell said.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2017
• The larvae are hidden within a decaying tree trunk, which might seem like an impregnable fortress.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2010
• The Knicks made the Spurs’ heretofore flimsy defense appear impregnable.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Mr. Ryan implored the donors not to assume that the House was impregnable and not to entirely focus their efforts on retaining the Senate.
  — Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2016
• No system is impregnable, but North Korea’s new missiles appear designed to find one of the biggest gaps in Seoul’s armor.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• To the Ukrainian soldiers, the plant was a stronghold, surrounded on three sides by water, ringed by high walls, as seemingly impregnable as a medieval keep.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• The San Gabriel Mountains loom like an impregnable fortress for millions of migrating birds making their long and perilous journey to distant breeding grounds in the far north.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The most significant confrontation this week has come in Mazar-e Sharif, the country’s fourth-largest city and the capital of Balkh province, long impregnable to Taliban threats.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• The Bulldogs’ at-first-permeable, then-impregnable defense allowed them to overcome a slow start by their offense.
  — Josh Cook, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2017
• The idea of white female beauty as the impregnable standard in Western art is only one of the questions raised by this endlessly evocative painting.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• Even so, ExxonMobil’s once impregnable balance sheet is showing holes, and the company has tumbled a few spots compared to last year’s list.
  — Fortune, 21 July 2017
• Montefeltro, a wealthy mercenary—who at the age of 15 had seized a fortress long believed impregnable—was also a bookish man, like many in the Renaissance.
  — Ernest Hilbert, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Competition will fuel a mindset that leads them to produce products that are more and more impregnable.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2017
• When one views white supremacy as impregnable, there is little room for one’s imagination to soar and one’s sense of agency is inescapably constrained.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• Here was a real-life case true to her lived experience then that was impregnable to an editor’s incredulity or red pen.
  — Stephen Phillips, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• Fain takes some time to gloat in front of our guy Perrin before exiting stage right as if getting into the throne room of a previously impregnable city were the easiest thing in the world.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
• The Yankees have ridden a wave of stellar starting pitching, with a sprinkling of timely hitting, tight defense and a nearly impregnable bullpen.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 27 July 2016
• The conservative bloc of that era was not impregnable, however.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021

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