How to Use impossibly in a Sentence

impossibly

adverb

• Even in the best-case scenarios, a year in the life of a child can seem impossibly long.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• The black hole the team observed was 53 million light-years away and an impossibly tiny dot in the sky.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2019
• In turn, that tech-free way of life might come off as impossibly niche.
  — Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
• Michael Calore: Hit us with the impossibly long name again.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
• Those bands seemed so huge and impossibly out of reach.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
• If that sounds like a lofty goal -- impossibly so, even -- then good.
  — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 13 June 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
• The book was published in 1984, the Orwellian year that had once seemed so impossibly far off.
  — Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
• 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
• As a child at the end of Generation X, the year 2020 seemed impossibly far away for much of my life.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2019
• In January of 2018, when Houghton closed, many in the industry mourned the loss of the impossibly cool brand.
  — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• Kids, pets, impossibly messy or neat rooms, and other clues emerge in the margins of our screens.
  — Kim Scott, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2020
• Janet shrinks herself impossibly small to defuse a bomb, and Dr. Pym thinks she's been lost to a quantum realm.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 July 2018
• On April 17, his head began to ache and his chest felt impossibly tight.
  — Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• 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 New York Times needle impossibly tipped the wrong way: Trump was elected.
  — Jessica Berger Gross, Longreads, 10 July 2018
• Your Grace, you, your favorite spoon, and your impossibly smoky voice will be missed.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Apr. 2021
• The jeans were impossibly low-slung and covered with prints of flowers.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
• As a pioneer of the sound and vibe of the ’70s whose influence was impossibly large.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
• There’s a lot of people who would get impossibly itchy with that kind of gap between the writing and the release of the album.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The trip home from an impossibly distant dream was supposed to take just three days.
  — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 16 July 2019
• The song and its video are very cute, and I was thrilled to hear Carey harmonize with Grande on their impossibly high whistle notes at the end.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2020
• And the other dragon reared up, impossibly dark, and even the light glinting off its scales seemed to be nothing but the purest coal black.
  — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
• They were all dimly lit, with walls upon walls of wigs: blonde and brunette and purple and curly and straight and bobbed and impossibly long.
  — Jessica Soffer, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2018
• Off the island of Raiatea in Tahiti, an impossibly blue bay sits empty save for a single sailing catamaran.
  — Cassidy Randall, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
• The 70-plus people tallied along Second Street in particular, near Interstate 8, seemed impossibly high, the city manager said in the email.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025