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Recent Examples of impassible On some of the country’s biggest lakes, often hundreds of miles wide with no current, an unfavorable wind made a waterway impassible. Outside, 7 Feb. 2026 This front will bring heavy snow to areas downwind of the Great Lakes, which could severely impact travel until Saturday and make some roads impassible. Gavon Laessig, NBC news, 27 Nov. 2025 In Delaware and New Jersey, particularly the southern part of the state, coastal flooding could get bad enough to cause some roads to become impassible and some structures to flood, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025 The storm left 1,467 roads impassible, NCDOT said, cutting off several communities from the outside world. Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for impassible
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Adjective
  • Her unvarnished, heartsore turn as a woman unprepared to be the face of a movement, but shouldering that responsibility anyway, gives this otherwise stoic affair a nervy, sensitive spine.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 July 2026
  • But the action is nullified by the fact that Ono assumes the stoic posture of the Buddhist monks seen in the news at the time setting themselves aflame in protest of the Vietnam War.
    Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
Adjective
  • Lancelot, noticeably weary, impassive, and preoccupied atop an equally weary black horse, follows the sorcerer, while Merlin leads him up the path into the realm of shadows, out of the frame to the left.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
  • Riles’s face is impassive, focused, as the announcer reads out the winner.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026

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“Impassible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassible. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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