Sentence examples for but impassable from inspiring English sources

Airports shut down, trains were delayed and side streets that went unplowed were all but impassable to cars.

By car it is a bewildering mass of turnings and traffic lights, on foot it is arduous and by bicycle it is all but impassable.

In Rwanda, as in many other African countries, the rainy season makes already difficult roads between smaller towns and villages all but impassable.

With sidewalks all but impassable under the drifts, New Yorkers who ventured out took to the roadways, and some found city parks irresistible.

Winter's first storm punished the White Mountains of New Hampshire on the Friday before Thanksgiving, rendering the terrain all but impassable.

But to the Friends of Liberty State Park and other groups interested in preserving passive recreation there, the circus is an unpleasant intrusion that has knotted up the park with traffic jams on weekends, and on one recent Sunday made it all but impassable.

Dawn on June 15 found them at the Chickahominy River, close to safety but rendered impassable by spring rains.

"We're barely making it here". Three years ago, as my colleague Frank Shyong then reported, the restaurants along St . Vincents Court spilled onto the street, their tables, chairs, flowers and trees making it festive, but nearly impassable for delivery trucks needing to access the renovated Los Angeles Theatre's loading doCourtt the end of the block.

Many roads remain impassable, but Houston's airports re-opened late Wednesday afternoon.

The highway was impassable, but drivers tried to maneuver around it through ruts and ditches.

The road back for the Coalition is long and windy, but not utterly impassable.