Sentence examples similar to impassable blockade from inspiring English sources
Urgent negotiations identified Damascus as a viable alternative; but, after a promising attack through the walled orchards that made up the city's outer defences, the crusaders were driven off by impassable blockades and the imminent prospect of starvation.
The usual duties of its members were to carry supplies and rice for the troops, build blockades to make the roads impassable to jeeps and slow for armored personnel-carriers, and dig tunnels, usually as bomb shelters for the village but sometimes as hideouts or hospitals for the Front's troops.
River bridges are impassable.
Pall Mall was impassable.
The roads were largely impassable.
In 1983, he brought the Canadian seal hunt to a near-standstill by blockading the port of St. John's, Newfoundland, and announcing that he would ram any sealing vessel that left the wharf; when the authorities threatened to board his ship, he replied that he would sink it at the mouth of the harbor, thereby creating an impassable reef.
