How to Use impossibility in a Sentence

impossibility

noun
Definition of impossibilitynext
  • The blizzard made travel an impossibility.
  • This seemed like an impossibility a few weeks back, but the Bears are on a roll right now.
    — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • What these trips had in common was the sense of impossibility that lingered at the start.
    — Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Malone would love to sell their home, but that seems an impossibility with the dump next door.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • For some work may become an impossibility, but for those who can work there are ways to get back out there.
    — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • The rebel slaves on the ship had a righteous cause and a sound strategy; they were undone by the impossibility of finding a safe place to land.
    — Justin Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • And perhaps impossibility is as good a place as any to live out the remainder of my days.
    — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And yet, the thought of owning a home in Los Angeles was an impossibility to him.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • And that doesn't seem like too much of an impossibility.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, as Lorentz told Uhlenbeck, the surface of the electron would have to be moving 10 times faster than the speed of light, a flat impossibility.
    — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The lid was propped open — something that had once seemed like an impossibility.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • These new players see a max-out not as an impossibility, but as a rite of passage.
    — Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
  • For now, impossibility keeps me from the quandary of having to decide.
    — Melanie McCabe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But the near-impossibility of reaching the airport has meant that many of the departing flights have left with empty seats.
    — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • About 40 minutes into the trip, the bus stopped to take on yet more passengers, even though this seemed an impossibility.
    — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The dizzying ascent is a reminder of what can happen to a group of players when the walls of impossibility crumble.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The stream of new cases showed the near impossibility of keeping the genie in the bottle in a globalized world of travel and open borders.
    — Raf Casert and Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The record of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos first entering the market in 1990 points to an impossibility at the heart of Montañez’s story all along.
    — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Getting her from wheelchair to car was a lengthy ordeal, the cozy back seat an impossibility.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The canvassers sought a state takeover of the city's elections, which Brater called a practical impossibility.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2022
  • These impossibility results were not the end of the story.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • In that last line, GPT-3 made physical the fact of that impossibility, by referring to the hand—my hand—that existed both then and now.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Nothing seems more hopeless than trying to get out of a black hole—in fact, this impossibility is what defines it.
    — Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That’s an impossibility when your own siblings tell people not to vote for you.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Hisham Matar’s new novel looks at the price of being forced out of one’s home and the impossibility of ever really going back again.
    — Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s a how-to guide to attempt to fulfill this impossibility.
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • During the pandemic, the sheer impossibility of knowing what would happen next has taken all of us who do that work to the breaking point.
    — David M. Perry, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • It is equipped with weapons and can be seen happily trekking all the way to the moon -- an impossibility for the real shuttles, which were never designed to leave Earth's orbit.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Strauss had found inspiration for the work, composed for two dozen string soloists during the final months of the war, in a Goethe poem about the impossibility of self-knowledge.
    — Christopher Benfey, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But the impossibility of the assignment hasn’t stopped the great thinkers of every generation from trying.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 July 2024

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