How to Use impossible in a Sentence

impossible

adjective
Definition of impossiblenext
Synonyms for impossiblenext
  • The heavy rain made it impossible to see the road.
  • It's physically impossible for a child to lift that much at once.
  • It's impossible to predict the future.
  • My boss is just an impossible woman.
  • You refuse to help and then criticize me for not doing it right? You're impossible!
  • It's virtually impossible to book a flight just before the holiday.
  • These math problems are impossible!
  • The views and breeze are impossible to top (or replicate) and the food is wildly unique.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The two sides remain far apart, but McCarthy said that doesn't mean a deal is impossible by the end of the week.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • These are impossible choices much of the world does not have to make.
    — Dawn Huckelbridge, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The best lip crayons are one of the few products that are nearly impossible to mess up.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
  • For a long time, the idea of dating again seemed impossible.
    — EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Nothing could be further from the truth, not that Franklin as a young man, did not think such a thing was impossible.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But Eva warned that the chances of success were impossible to predict.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The amount of work that goes into each look is impossible to ignore.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 May 2023
  • Experts say the exact amount of fuel the group has is impossible to know.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Uday Samir, a 23-year old Gaza City native, said many of the basic foods such as flour, lentils and rice are now impossible to find across the city.
    — Aamer Madhani, Matthew Lee, Zeke Miller, Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The housing market has been all but impossible to crack for many buyers the past two years.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Atchak, who helps manage the city’s food pantry, said it’s been nearly impossible to keep up with the demand.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • To reclaim the land and effectively push out the Dodgers could be next to impossible.
    — Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 7 May 2023
  • That same night, the teens act out in a way no one could have imagined — and most parents would find impossible to forgive.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For others, the legend of Hank and Tee-Tot has proved impossible to resist.
    — Geoff Mann, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The banker had urged Tom to take out a mortgage, then foreclosed when Tom’s injury made work impossible.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • That sounds like a daunting task, even an impossible one.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Then those storyboards go to stunts, and stunts work out that some of those movements are impossible to do.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • In a year of countless memorable shows, Unwound was the one that’s impossible to forget, just like the best dreams are.
    — Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Moreover, the studio choreographed a solution to the problems of the day that was impossible to miss.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Prying these pads off the backing plate was like pulling gum from beneath a school desk—not impossible, but not easy.
    — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Very broad LLMs that try to answer all possible end-user queries, utilizing massive datasets can be impossible to tame in all 4 key dimensions.
    — Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Some worry that this will put an impossible burden on public welfare and health care systems and on younger generations who will have to care for a huge population of older people.
    — Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024

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