How to Use impossibly in a Sentence
impossibly
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My bike and the lake seemed impossibly out of reach.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
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In turn, that tech-free way of life might come off as impossibly niche.
—Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
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Her dress, topped with a corset, showed off an impossibly tiny waist.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
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Yet the bar had been set impossibly high.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2026
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If that sounds like a lofty goal -- impossibly so, even -- then good.
—Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
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Stone proved that even off-the-rack pieces can look impossibly chic with the right styling.
—Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
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The sky is impossibly blue and the soaring pines a rich green.
—Sue Hertz, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
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This year’s dance hinted at the end of an impossibly long year.
—Alden Woods, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
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The impossibly tiny kitchen still manages to put forth quite a spread.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
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My to-be-read pile is now, as ever, impossibly tall.
—Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
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These feel impossibly chic for a one-strap sandal.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
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But at 13, that dream felt impossibly far away.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
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The trip home from an impossibly distant dream was supposed to take just three days.
—Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 16 July 2019
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Even in the best-case scenarios, a year in the life of a child can seem impossibly long.
—Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
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Turner looked impossibly cool in a matching brown leather set and black knee-high boots.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
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Matt James comes in and gives … an impossibly long opening night speech.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
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The jeans were impossibly low-slung and covered with prints of flowers.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
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Kids, pets, impossibly messy or neat rooms, and other clues emerge in the margins of our screens.
—Kim Scott, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2020
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Your Grace, you, your favorite spoon, and your impossibly smoky voice will be missed.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Apr. 2021
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True Grit is a movie that meets the almost impossibly bar the novel sets.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
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The loss of Tomm seems, impossibly, even bigger now.
—Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026
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Wouldn’t that be impossibly hard to balance?
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 June 2026
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His impossibly long jab and agile feet established a rhythm in the first round.
—Norm Frauenheim, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
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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
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The chocolate pot de crème took a narrow first place thanks to its silky, impossibly creamy nature.
—Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2020
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This was the point where the project stopped feeling fun and started feeling impossibly hard.
—Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026
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From below, the mountain looks impossibly steep, but there’s a hiking route that gets you to the top in a day.
—Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
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The middle is impossibly airy, a light, puffy cushion for all the toppings.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
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Behind him, his shadow is impossibly small, not much larger than a dishrag.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
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On April 17, his head began to ache and his chest felt impossibly tight.
—Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
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