How to Use the impossible in a Sentence

the impossible

noun

• In the face of the impossible, though, Joanna says the pair and their family has found a format that does work for them.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 26 Nov. 2023
• Musk has done the impossible before, not once but twice.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 27 July 2023
• Now 69 years old, Robert himself knows a thing or two about conquering the impossible—and keeping the faith.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 26 Oct. 2023
• And then Tarak meets this gang of individuals who are bold enough to take on the impossible.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
• In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible is about to happen again.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• This episode is definitely a chance to dream the impossible dream.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2023
• The women who don’t have to deal with the impossible demands put on the by society with raising children.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• So far, he’s made the impossible happen through boxing, and boxing alone.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• Anyone who asks that of their colleagues is asking the impossible.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Each side dreams of the impossible disappearance of the other.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• So, last night, this writer tried to do the impossible: attend every single one.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 May 2024
• With four career nominations to Bening’s name, the streamer believes the fifth time could be the charm with her turn as a marathon swimmer who achieves the impossible in the drama.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• Say no to temptation, and don’t promise the impossible.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• Now, TikTokers have taken the once-popular words in the slime-making world and are making videos asking how to do the impossible.
  — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• Listen to this article Aaron Rodgers pulled off the impossible.
  — Bob Raissman, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024
• Of doing the impossible, together, and that sense of unity.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• These weeds—the ones that do the impossible and weasel their way through cracks in the patio, concrete, pavers, and driveway—can be so difficult to remove since most weeding tools don’t fit in between the cracks.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 May 2024
• Day after day, the determined bird sat on the rock, which was hospitably strewn with leaves and branches, seemingly waiting for the impossible.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• Venture at its best is able to support founders in making the impossible possible.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
• This was the subjective part of his job, distinct from the impossible task of duplicating nature.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Stays up and minimizes; these two things usually don't go together, but this bra does the impossible.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2023
• This is a team that actually had the best pitching in baseball for a few months and still couldn’t win a one-run game — and, up to this writing, was 0-8 in extra innings (which makes the impossible possible).
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
• In another context, Shakespeare was attempting the same thing, as in the history plays where the catastrophe derives from the impossible ambitions of the monarch or those of the subjects against the monarch.
  — Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
• To understand the dam requires knowing the impossible demand on the Colorado River.
  — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• The objective is not the impossible one of stopping the music but the more practical one of lowering the volume to a more tolerable level.
  — Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
• Still, the show remains a captivating attempt at capturing the impossible and freezing it in time.
  — WIRED, 28 June 2023
• The opening track, which is about the impossible standards of being a woman in America, starts out kind of Joni Mitchell but then turns abruptly midway into a song that sounds like the riot-grrrl scene.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• But the dilemma before his parents encapsulates the impossible choices confronting Gazans every day through this month-and-a-half-long war.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Campuses were faced with the impossible choice of which students to make uncomfortable.
  — José Antonio Bowen, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Harris had also done the impossible by knocking Trump out of the news cycle, reorienting the media’s center of gravity while embracing the viral kismet of Brat Summer.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024