Sentence examples for would be impassable from inspiring English sources

"On a spring or fall day, the sidewalks would be impassable," he said.

We were afraid that the sugar cane on the site would be impassable for this last round since it isn't cut and harvested until March.

Big snow was coming, and the road to Fort Pierre would be impassable, perhaps for a week, perhaps for the entire winter.

Instead of constructing the proposed road — which would be impassable in severe weather — taxpayers invested $37.5 million to upgrade the health clinic at King Cove and purchase a state-of-the-art hovercraft for medical evacuations.

Trump's plans for his border wall vary over time and are vague, but here's what we do know: According to a 2017 executive order, it would be an "impassable physical barrier," which Trump first proclaimed would be made of concrete before switching to "steel slats".

If the surge had been just that much higher, subway tunnels would have flooded, segments of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and roads along the Hudson River would have turned into rivers, and sections of the commuter rail system would have been impassable or bereft of power, he said.

THE old Soviet ambulance lurched along a dirt road that would have been impassable to most vehicles.

A Chernobyl-scale disaster -- highly unlikely but nonetheless possible -- would require the immediate evacuation of millions of people along roadways that can be impassable at rush hour.

The gap can't be impassable in either case.

But the breach between the Ingush public and the federal authorities may be impassable.

Some roads were also said to be impassable even with the use of motorbikes.