How to Use impossibly in a Sentence

impossibly

adverb

• Her skin looked impossibly blue, alien, almost like glass.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
• In the background, impossibly tall new apartment towers stretch into the sky.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2021
• There are still miles to go, but the road to that almost impossibly ambitious goal of shifting diets is getting clearer.
  — Jonathan Safran Foer, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
• But it’s the impossibly perfect goings-on at the Commonwealth that take center stage and distract from the threat of the Reapers for at least a little while.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2021
• First among equals is the beef empanada, an impossibly thin shell that conceals a glistening mixture of meat and vegetables, which hums with the steady current of a Chilean spice blend.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• Watson, a 6-8 forward from Long Beach Poly High, is easy to spot because of his impossibly long arms and easy smile that reveals braces.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• Country after country acknowledged the wide disparity in accessing the vaccine, painting a picture so bleak that a solution has at times seemed impossibly out of reach.
  — Pia Sarkar, ajc, 23 Sep. 2021
• The animal's massive ribcage is still mostly intact, while the impossibly long limbs and neck are strewn further into the long grass -- most still covered in pale yellow fur and the unmistakable brown spots of a giraffe.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
• The impossibly high standards set by past legends’ entire illustrious careers are now the bar for which many music fans use to project expectations onto artists who are only in the nascent stages of their journeys.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• But living space has greatly tightened, and housing has become impossibly pricey for too many middle-class families and young couples who are being priced out of California.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• But leave it to Kaia Gerber to kick off the evening's red carpet with a look to set the bar impossibly high—and the lengths even longer.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 2 May 2022
• Her dress, topped with a corset, showed off an impossibly tiny waist.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
• The result is an impossibly thin sheet of maize that inherits all of the stone’s ridges and crevices.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022
• The dish to order: An impossibly crispy pork schnitzel, topped with golden beets and smoked roe.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2024
• On the other side, cloud-like Dall sheep climbed impossibly steep, unnamed cliffs, bound for the meringue-like snow at their peaks.
  — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
• The image slapped me across the face: a truck in the pouring rain, leaning impossibly to the right on a rickety rope bridge ready for collapse.
  — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• Slot canyons are rife with impossibly tidy life lessons.
  — Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2022
• The resort sits on the Caribbean, which in the sunlight is impossibly blue and crystal clear.
  — Rebecca Holland, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• To make a long story impossibly brief: Mort was born in Brooklyn, in 1931.
  — Sofia Warren, The New Yorker, 8 July 2024
• Almost impossibly, the forecast was even worse for parts of Wyoming.
  — Margaret Stafford, Josh Funk and Juan Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Turner looked impossibly cool in a matching brown leather set and black knee-high boots.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• Her chunky layers with smooth and glossy ends were the perfect canvas for that refreshed–and impossibly springy–shade.
  — Lauren Murdoch-Smith, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
• Many of the laughs in early episodes come at the expense of Ellis, Lowe's impossibly wacky founder, whose idea of bliss is walking around his office nude.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• Most loners never shoot up a school, and those that do make up an impossibly small number.
  — Daniel Buck, National Review, 6 June 2022
• As the days grow impossibly short and deeply dark, the holiday spirit can brighten our spirits and soothe our souls.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• One swipe of this covered my acne scars and even a budding pimple, and made my skin look impossibly smooth.
  — ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
• That’s good for people like me, who are already busy enough and have impossibly long watchlists.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Feb. 2022
• Each room is impossibly bright and brings in the outdoors, so the interior color palette is pared down to let the bright-blue water steal the show.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 May 2022
• Liu will play the role of Chang, a handsome, impossibly charming bootlegger and son to one of San Francisco Chinatown’s most powerful and influential families.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024