impassable - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: The snow had made the roads almost impassable for horses.
  • render: For instance, culverting or the construction of weirs may render watercourses impassable to fish and other wildlife.

Modifies a noun

  • gulf: According to the same author these living ones " have chosen to proclaim the existence of an impassable gulf between the revolutionary ( ?
  • rift: Above, the passage narrowed into an impassable rift.
  • barrier: This Agra treasure intervened like an impassable barrier between us.
  • road: Friday 8th January 1982 Work did not, due to presumed impassable road.
  • obstacle: The mouse is able to gnaw its way past, or slip under seemingly impassable obstacles.
  • passage: A climb up here leads to an impassable passage at the top.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The fields through which men should have gone became impassable.
  • make: There are far too many footpaths deliberately blocked with barbed wire or made impassable by water troughs.
  • render: The trees fell across the lane toward the north and northwest, so that the road was rendered totally impassable for some weeks.

Preposition: after

  • rain: Driving Main roads are generally in good condition, tho rural roads are typically of packed earth and hence impassable after rain.

Modifying Another Word

  • virtually: An update, received in May 2000, says the canal beyond is " virtually impassable " .
  • seemingly: The mouse is able to gnaw its way past, or slip under seemingly impassable obstacles.
  • almost: The road was almost impassable, even on foot.
  • totally: We got up to the Bromley Stop Lock, after here the canal is totally impassable.
  • completely: In winter, most local roads became almost completely impassable.
  • often: Wheeled vehicles had to take their chances along poorly maintained valley bottom highways, often impassable in the winter with mud.

Preposition: in

  • winter: Then, through the locally famed Snake Pass ( impassable in winter!
  • weather: They replaced roads that were little more than dirt tracks and were often impassable in bad weather.

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