How to Use impossibility in a Sentence

impossibility

noun

• The blizzard made travel an impossibility.
• There’s an impossibility to let that go, and that’s when the stakes get so high.
  — Kristen Tauer, WWD, 29 Jan. 2025
• Malone would love to sell their home, but that seems an impossibility with the dump next door.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• For some work may become an impossibility, but for those who can work there are ways to get back out there.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• This seemed like an impossibility a few weeks back, but the Bears are on a roll right now.
  — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• The lid was propped open — something that had once seemed like an impossibility.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
• These new players see a max-out not as an impossibility, but as a rite of passage.
  — Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
• What these trips had in common was the sense of impossibility that lingered at the start.
  — Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• In a way, the impossibility of Proxi was the point.
  — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
• Sleeping on a plane is a challenge for most and a near-impossibility for many.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2026
• But changes in the film business have made that an impossibility in recent years.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
• That’s an impossibility when your own siblings tell people not to vote for you.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2021
• Movies are supposed to be a break from the impossibility of real life.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• And perhaps impossibility is as good a place as any to live out the remainder of my days.
  — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• For now, impossibility keeps me from the quandary of having to decide.
  — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• Getting her from wheelchair to car was a lengthy ordeal, the cozy back seat an impossibility.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
• Intrigued by the sheer impossibility of the task, Strike agrees to devote one year to the case.
  — Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• This movie, to me, is about the impossibility of adulthood in the modern era, for anyone.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
• But, at the same time, the very impossibility of this project weighed on him throughout the war and for the remainder of his life.
  — Dallas News, 28 June 2019
• Here’s a how-to guide to attempt to fulfill this impossibility.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• Aware of the great impossibility of life and my small, flickering role within it.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• Nothing seems more hopeless than trying to get out of a black hole—in fact, this impossibility is what defines it.
  — Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• In the beginning, writing the book has an air of impossibility about it.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
• The second year seemed to carry a weight of impossibility — surely, no player could come back from this.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
• The impossibility of reversing the past and restoring life to the dead only adds to the force of their desire to act.
  — Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• In the wake of these storms, rebuilding costs have shifted from a challenge to an impossibility.
  — Carlos Curbelo, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
• Rookies fell out with their bosses all the time, who, in turn, complained about the impossibility of getting good help these days.
  — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
• But the near-impossibility of reaching the airport has meant that many of the departing flights have left with empty seats.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• The rebel slaves on the ship had a righteous cause and a sound strategy; they were undone by the impossibility of finding a safe place to land.
  — Justin Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• The impossibility of his quest began to settle in.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026