Sentence examples for rendered impassable from inspiring English sources

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

The dire prediction came on another day of weather-related disruption which saw dozens of schools closed, many roads rendered impassable and key train routes suspended.

My old path along the banks of the Tigris, the one I had used since 2003, was finally rendered impassable by several new coils of razor wire.

No wonder, then, that of 3,000km 1,9000 miles) of road rendered impassable, only 354km have been restored.By far the biggest obstacle to the reconstruction effort, however, is the sheer scale of the devastation.

The most severely damaged part of the agency's network appears to be the Metro-North Railroad in Westchester County and Connecticut, where vast swaths of track have been flooded, short-circuited, or otherwise rendered impassable.

The strain is likely to grow more acute as the government depends on helicopter gunships to extend its reach to parts of the country rendered impassable to logistics convoys and even armored vehicles by the rebels' improvised bombs.

The nearest larger school lies 40 miles down a gravel road that blizzards often render impassable.

By 1970, he was urging blacks to "render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber".

Others suffocated inside the factory building, as the blaze apparently rendered stairwells impassable.

In many places, rubble strewn across streets has rendered them impassable and has effectively sealed off neighbourhoods to traffic.

Some of the fallen trees rendered roads impassable.