Example sentences for: impossibility

How can you use “impossibility” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most poignant parts of her books detail the pressures Scarpetta faces as an executive who's responsible for the welfare of her subordinates but under ruthless pressure to deliver results; the impossibility of sorting through overwhelming floods of information and straining for an educated guess; the sadness of a life lived in helicopters and planes rather than in hotels; the inadequacy of colleagues who function like family but aren't.

  • Pressed about their cautious conduct of the war, Clinton's putative idealists invoke the classic realist alibi: impossibility.

  • It would, of course, be an impossibility to get the citizenry to agree on expenditures.

  • In less than two weeks, their verdict on the bombing of Yugoslavia leapt from unfulfilled objectives to failure to impossibility.

  • The word serves well in describing the curious concept of a logical impossibility.


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