How to Use impregnable in a Sentence

impregnable

adjective

• But it was no longer seen as impregnable and, decades later, would be sacked again.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
• The biggest surprise has been that their bubbles are far from impregnable.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• Once when told that a certain French fortress was impregnable and once when told that his mother-in-law had died.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 Mar. 2024
• From the Army’s point of view, the moon was a fortress made impregnable by distance—a huge advantage.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2022
• To be sure, the economic wall around Russia is not impregnable.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• The moat wasn't meant to be impregnable, but rather to slow down an attacker and give the defender time to prepare.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
• The larvae are hidden within a decaying tree trunk, which might seem like an impregnable fortress.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2010
• OpenAI wasn’t a fortress, wasn’t impregnable.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
• The walls seem impregnable, and strong enough to last another 1,000 years.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• The Titanic was the largest ocean liner in service at the time, thought to be nearly impregnable.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 31 May 2023
• Saturday might have seemed perfectly cloudy, with an overcast that seemed impregnable.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• Competition will fuel a mindset that leads them to produce products that are more and more impregnable.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2017
• The conservative bloc of that era was not impregnable, however.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• On that occasion a team made up of players who had all been born in Haiti shocked an Italy team famed for its impregnable defense.
  — Laurent Dubois, The Conversation, 10 June 2026
• Here was a real-life case true to her lived experience then that was impregnable to an editor’s incredulity or red pen.
  — Stephen Phillips, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• But their quarterback issues could make those defenses look impregnable.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 26 Nov. 2025
• But their quarterback issues could make those defenses look impregnable.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
• This is the one venue in sports that remains virtually impregnable to boorish behavior.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Gabrielle Union as a desperate mother hellbent on saving her two children being held in an impregnable home.
  — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 6 May 2018
• When one views white supremacy as impregnable, there is little room for one’s imagination to soar and one’s sense of agency is inescapably constrained.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• The Knicks made the Spurs’ heretofore flimsy defense appear impregnable.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria.
  — Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024
• Matt Murray was impregnable in the first contest, but the Flyers broke down his defenses often in the second one.
  — Tim Hackett, SI.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Outside Yellowknife, the fires had jumped first one impregnable firebreak, then another and then another.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The walls are impregnable, but thanks to Tyrion, the Unsullied were able to sneak in using his secret passage cove and the sewage system.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2017
• France believed its Maginot Line of fortresses was impregnable – until the Germans simply went around it.
  — New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2026
• The idea of white female beauty as the impregnable standard in Western art is only one of the questions raised by this endlessly evocative painting.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• To the Ukrainian soldiers, the plant was a stronghold, surrounded on three sides by water, ringed by high walls, as seemingly impregnable as a medieval keep.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Even so, ExxonMobil’s once impregnable balance sheet is showing holes, and the company has tumbled a few spots compared to last year’s list.
  — Fortune, 21 July 2017
• The Yankees have ridden a wave of stellar starting pitching, with a sprinkling of timely hitting, tight defense and a nearly impregnable bullpen.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 27 July 2016