How to Use the impossible in a Sentence

the impossible

noun
  • What is the sound of your first encounter with the impossible?
    Alex Galbraith, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The Knicks had just pulled off the impossible.
    Tim Rohan, NBC news, 11 June 2026
  • You’re challenged to do the impossible at all times.
    Tracee Ellis Ross, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There have been times when this has, truly, appeared ‘the impossible job’.
    Paul Newman, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • That said, Musk has pulled off the impossible before.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • So what are your means to get through the impossible, not to get around it, not to play the part of somebody else to get through it.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
  • But then, proving the impossible possible is what these films have done from the start.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
  • Don’t attempt to achieve the impossible as the sun and Saturn clash.
    Usa Today, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • But even Baker can do the impossible only so many times.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2025
  • This episode is definitely a chance to dream the impossible dream.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Anyone who asks that of their colleagues is asking the impossible.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible is about to happen again.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • So far, he’s made the impossible happen through boxing, and boxing alone.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Binotto is no stranger to chasing the impossible.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The best time to recognize a moonshot is before the impossible part is over.
    Ethan Stone, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • For parents, that means facing the impossible task of helping their young kids make sense of loss far too early.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • And science is all about achieving the impossible.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Something that might have made the impossible very, very possible.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In this case, however, the defense couldn’t do the impossible.
    Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2026
  • And then Tarak meets this gang of individuals who are bold enough to take on the impossible.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Sing, muse, of the cunning Christopher Nolan, who has once again achieved the impossible.
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 19 July 2026
  • Seven minutes later, the first firetruck slid to a stop as firefighters took in the impossible scene in front of them.
    Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Rethinking the impossible will have to become a habit.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Sweden appears to have done the impossible.
    ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Venture at its best is able to support founders in making the impossible possible.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Which is to say that to dream the impossible dream is one thing, but to pretend that its reality is quite another.
    Ed Simon september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In the face of the impossible, though, Joanna says the pair and their family has found a format that does work for them.
    Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The women who don’t have to deal with the impossible demands put on the by society with raising children.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The World Cup is the impossible dream in the United States.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2025
  • This team, somehow, pulls off the impossible, the miraculous.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 June 2026

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