Example sentences for: impregnable

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

  • This route sits against the old city walls, which were completed in 1785, and from here it is easy to see why the city was thought to be impregnable.

  • The dramatically rising cliff of black basalt stone made the castle impregnable to all but the most wily commander.

  • Once a vast fortification of 49 turrets, it ranked alongside Osaka and Nagoya as one of the country’s greatest impregnable bastions.

  • The Moors were on the retreat, withdrawing to the almost impregnable mountain fortress area of Granada, where they held out until 1492.

  • Surrounded by a pair of precipitous ravines, the imposing walls of the citadel were some forty feet high and twenty feet thick, virtually impregnable.


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