How to Use impractical in a Sentence

impractical

adjective

• He was a dreamy and impractical young man.
• Little sports cars are impractical for large families.
• This made the method impractical for me and for most people who owe the IRS money.
  — Jay L. Zagorsky, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
• The state house speaker has called the plan impractical.
  — Casey Tolan, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• If that seems a bit impractical, here are a few things to try instead.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
• The ideas were seen as impractical to some who were involved in the discussions.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 23 June 2023
• These may be rewarding in the short term, but too impractical and expensive to save oil and gas in the long term.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• But for many of these problems, finding a solution in the first place seemed to take an impractical amount of time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2022
• In recent seasons, the over-the-top looks seen on the show, which can verge on the impractical, have become memes on social media.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• Thin impractical scarves do seem to be making a comeback for spring.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2024
• However, these plans were scrapped and deemed impractical since divers would be unable to safely reach the depths of the shipwreck.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• Mack’s parents may have taught him to stay close to the nest, but that’s terribly impractical in winter.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• Gone are the impractical thin, rock-solid slip-on sandals and house slippers.
  — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
• But aid groups say replacing the agency is impractical in the short or medium term.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• The location seemed ideal at first but turned out to be impractical.
  — Helen Purcell Montag, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• They’d been sold in pre-assembled kits that would have been impractical to repackage.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• Sometimes—as is the case for the ocean floor off Los Angeles—conditions have changed so much that restoration is impractical.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• In the future, Preston’s team plans to do away with the carbon dioxide canister, which is impractical.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
• But waiting on a big windfall of housing supply to ease the plight of tenants, advocates say, is impractical.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• People may want to auto-delete messages anyway, but for users who want to save their history, such schemes can be impractical.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• Some might call that stubborn or impractical; Sheridan sees it as trusting his instincts and sticking to his creative guns.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• Given an impractical amount of simulation time, the robot would likely figure out how to do these tasks on its own.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2023
• Taking a whole cow to disease hotspots was equally impractical.
  — Hannah Seo, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• The engine, patented by Felix Wankel in 1929, proved impractical.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
• Producers have the right to reject props that seem impractical or unsafe — don't worry, pets are welcome!
  — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2023
• Among the rules that make taking them along impractical are requirements in many countries to obtain health certificates for each plant.
  — Michelle Chan, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
• Social media platforms have dismissed some of the other provisions in the new rules as impractical.
  — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
• Given how impractical and unusual the footwear is, it’s been a surprise to see how quickly—and how widespread—the fashion world has hopped on them, before they’re even released no less.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2023
• The resort happens to have just the right conditions—high-alpine terrain that’s exposed to the wind and impractical for snowmaking, plus lots of natural snow—to make snow farming its method of choice.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2023
• And with septic tanks impractical or too expensive, pipes from homes carry waste water from toilets, showers and sinks straight to streams.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024