How to Use impossible in a Sentence

impossible

adjective
  • The heavy rain made it impossible to see the road.
  • It's physically impossible for a child to lift that much at once.
  • It's impossible to predict the future.
  • My boss is just an impossible woman.
  • You refuse to help and then criticize me for not doing it right? You're impossible!
  • It's virtually impossible to book a flight just before the holiday.
  • These math problems are impossible!
  • The views and breeze are impossible to top (or replicate) and the food is wildly unique.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The two sides remain far apart, but McCarthy said that doesn't mean a deal is impossible by the end of the week.
    Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • The amount of work that goes into each look is impossible to ignore.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 May 2023
  • Experts say the exact amount of fuel the group has is impossible to know.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Uday Samir, a 23-year old Gaza City native, said many of the basic foods such as flour, lentils and rice are now impossible to find across the city.
    Aamer Madhani, Matthew Lee, Zeke Miller, Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The housing market has been all but impossible to crack for many buyers the past two years.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To reclaim the land and effectively push out the Dodgers could be next to impossible.
    Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 7 May 2023
  • That same night, the teens act out in a way no one could have imagined — and most parents would find impossible to forgive.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For others, the legend of Hank and Tee-Tot has proved impossible to resist.
    Geoff Mann, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The banker had urged Tom to take out a mortgage, then foreclosed when Tom’s injury made work impossible.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • That sounds like a daunting task, even an impossible one.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Then those storyboards go to stunts, and stunts work out that some of those movements are impossible to do.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • In a year of countless memorable shows, Unwound was the one that’s impossible to forget, just like the best dreams are.
    Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Replacing Rice is nearly impossible, but SMU has the depth to do it.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • If this proves to be impossible, then get outside help with your anxiety and grief.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Perhaps that’s an impossible task given the amount of behind-the-scenes content already in the NFL universe.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Because the buck was impossible to pattern, simply waiting him out (and not bumping him) was the only way to kill him with a bow.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In each episode, Frankie and her otherworldly friends try to complete a nearly impossible task set by the Reaper.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • The idea that anyone happens to be stopping by now — right now — to check on humans is all but impossible to imagine.
    Garrett M. Graff, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Given the flux inside the Padres front office, though, that seems impossible to predict.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been impossible to avoid hearing Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s name over the past week.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But trying to stretch that over six hundred pages is impossible.
    Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • But Love, Amy came to a halt when the pandemic hit, making dating near impossible.
    Hillary Hoffower, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024

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