How to Use insuperable in a Sentence

insuperable

adjective
  • When an athlete achieves a new record or wins a gold medal, fans are now plagued with insuperable questions.
    Matt Hart, The Atlantic, 30 July 2021
  • In spite of their insuperable aura, black hat hackers don't all need to be at the very pinnacle of their field.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Adding new ones will pose a challenge, but not an insuperable one.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • On his part, Jin completely stole the show with his body rolls and black tie 'fit, while Suga's striped Saint Laurent ensemble was simply insuperable.
    Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 27 Jan. 2020
  • As long as there have been physicists, there have been physicists who worry their field has come up against an insuperable barrier.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The obstacle comes in the Senate, where the party’s 50-vote threshold will become insuperable.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
  • That means that Biden and the anti-Trump cause face a potentially insuperable challenge.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The taboo of the illicit is not an insuperable obstacle.
    Eddie Jacobs, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Obviously, her spirit was strong and love of life insuperable.
    Luis Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Mr Vala decided that the BJP should indeed have the first go at proving a majority in the state assembly, despite the apparently insuperable arithmetic.
    The Economist, 19 May 2018
  • My father was convinced that my deafness would be an insuperable obstacle.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2020
  • Lemoine is a supervillain in the least subtle sense, with near-infinite money, insuperable technology and maniacal plans for a grandiose world takeover.
    Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Consider several factors that will blunt what looks on paper like an insuperable edge.
    chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Welles, who died in 1985, never finished editing his film; legal and financial problems proved insuperable.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • There is little doubt that the Russian cold poses a special set of problems, industry specialists say, although nothing is insuperable.
    Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2020
  • The practical obstacles are insuperable, and the likely effects would be very unwelcome to its proponents.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Their stories, which pit dazzling achievement against insuperable obstacles, are both gripping and wrenching.
    Jane Kamensky, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Two women who are attached to their cultural roots yet alienated by the conservative values of their communities hold for each other the answer to problems that until now have seemed insuperable.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • This extension of rights, Stone argued, was needed to address an otherwise insuperable problem.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Here of course the Trump foreign-policy vision faces an insuperable problem: The single most daunting problem for American soft power and global influence is the president himself.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Opera houses have been mostly inactive, in light of the nearly insuperable epidemiological challenges of assembling soloists, a chorus, and an orchestra in one space.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The immigrants face little direct bigotry; their main adversary is German law, which with frosty indifference throws up insuperable obstacles to their efforts to apply for asylum.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • While the Roy spawn can never fully sideline their emotions to make decisions—their daddy issues and professional ambitions an insuperable murky swirl—Gerri is a clear-eyed, cool-headed outsider among insiders.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Marie Claire, 9 Nov. 2021
  • By then, two decades of performing, recording and touring had created smoldering, insuperable tensions within rock’s most celebrated brother act.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Her white competitors had an insuperable advantage, Powell writes.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Policy-makers are faced with an almost insuperable task of curbing inflationary pressures while attempting to entice real economic growth.
    Edwin T. Burton, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Nonetheless, logistics and manpower may not be an insuperable issue.
    Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2017
  • In other words, the Constitution is not by itself an insuperable barrier against the authoritarian temptation.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Twitter’s comic advantages over late night are myriad, insuperable, and perhaps obvious.
    Inkoo Kang, Slate Magazine, 22 Dec. 2017
  • None of this is to say that segregation is necessarily an insuperable obstacle to educational excellence.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 July 2019

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