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How to use impossibility in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Impossibility means something that is impossible. Example: “Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.”

Examples of impossibility by meaning

nounSomething that is impossible.

  • Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.
  • Breathing had become difficult, swallowing acutely painful, and sleep an impossibility—for whenever he dropped off, the patient would choke and wake up frantically struggling for air.1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 8, in Island, New York: Bantam, published 1963, page 123
  • What insane impossibility has Hughes just committed himself to?2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 191–192

nounThe quality of being impossible.

  • Ever since the war, in the complete impossibility of getting houses, parts of the population have overflowed into supposedly temporary quarters in fixed caravans.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1958, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 61

More sentences with impossibility

  • “Full control over one’s smart home is, at least in the present tense, an impossibility,” she said.2023 February 17, Anna Kodé, quoting Suzanne Woods, “Unwanted Connection: Who Has Control of Your Smart Home?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry smart home
  • Of course it must be recognized that "teleological neutrality" may be an impossibility.2010, John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry fairhandedness
  • For such propositions unimaginability looks like a function of a kind of conceptual impossibility.2008 January 11, Cain Samuel Todd, “Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: dissolving the puzzle of ‘imaginative resistance’”, in…. From the entry unimaginability
  • It made no sense to him that their very impossibility was their pleasure.2008 March, Alexander Jablokov, “The Boarder”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 114, number 3, Concord, N.H.: Fantasy…. From the entry handwavium
  • This interpretation is problematic because it involves a temporal impossibility:⁷⁶ the inversion of time sequence.2002, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 65. From the entry Chrysaor
  • Yet she was alive—existing without oxygen—an impossibility as we had always supposed.1921, Eden Phillpotts, chapter VIII, in The Grey Room. From the entry barbital
  • Or as a fan in the ballroom—the impossibility of mislayal would alone make this form popular.1905 May, E[dith] Ayrton, “A Plea for the Tail”, in The Critic and Literary World, volume XLVI, number 5, New Rochelle, N.Y.: […] [F]or…. From the entry mislayal
  • The government said the simultaneous conduct of the SIR and the local body elections would be an “near- impossibility”.2025 November 18, Krishnadas Rajagopal, “Kerala approaches Supreme Court to postpone Special Intensive Revision. The State said the…. From the entry sir
  • With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49. From the entry rarepair
  • The impossibility of explaining the Stern-Gerlach result is what he and Ehrenfest tried to show with their “little calculation”.2016, Enric Pérez, Blai Pié i Valls, “Bohr and Ehrenfest: transformations and correspondences in the early 1920s”, in European Physical…. From the entry expound
  • This is what has been pointed up by Le Pen, who, in his very ubuesque emergence, embodies that impossibility.2007, Exiles from Dialogue, Polity, translation of original by Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry ubuesque
  • In any multicriterial setting, absolute perfection is simply an impossibility.2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics”, in The Review of Metaphysics, LIII, № 4, § iii, page 818. From the entry multicriterial
  • They are, therefore, Künstlerromane of a particularly problematic kind: most of each text consists of the argument of its own impossibility.1981, Naomi Segal, Bithell Series of Dissertations, volume 6: “The Banal Object: Theme and Thematics in Proust, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, and…. From the entry Künstlerromane
  • He must act as if fear was an impossibility.1977, Lillian O'Donnell, Aftershock, page 128. From the entry parchedly
  • Lenin gave an all-round substantiation of the impossibility of implementing the United States of Europe slogan under capitalism.1969, Y. F. Sopin, chapter 5, in The Bolshevik Party's Struggle Against Trotskyism, page 214. From the entry politically correct
  • OOO's way of addressing the issue is with the impossibility of exhausting any object through undermining, overmining, or their simultaneous employment in duomining.2020, Graham Harman, Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals, page 212. From the entry ooo
  • If the war against Israel ever had to be fought on Israeli soil – do I have to tell you? –, it’s an impossibility.2019 December 3, Ruth Wisse, 31:04 from the start, in Global Anti-Semitism: A New or Old Phenomenon? (Natan Sharansky and Ruth Wisse in…. From the entry Israel
  • With multi-voltage techniques in their present state of development, the greatest disadvantage resulting from these differences is the impossibility of fast through multiple-unit expresses.1957 December, “European Electrification Progress”, in Railway Magazine, page 820. From the entry dual-voltage
  • But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course.1918, George Bernard Shaw, “A Letter to Frank Harris, published by him in his Life of Wilde”, in Pen Portraits and Reviews, London…. From the entry infatuate
  • Nigel, to whom a lie was an impossibility, had to admit that with his own hands he had shredded those august documents.1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How Nigel was Tried by the Abbot of Waverley”, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published…. From the entry shred
  • To be Indian-like appears to signal a site of ethical impossibility, an unrecuperably undemocratic enmeshment with the land that leaves one as stuck temporally as one is spatially.2014, Mark Rifkin, Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance, University of Minnesota Press. From the entry unrecuperably
  • It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, →ISBN. From the entry bourbon
  • Niebuhr “adjectifies” love in terms of self-sacrifice and thus “gains too easy a victory, and by a somewhat mistaken strategy, in his campaign to demonstrate the (relevant) impossibility of love.”1993, D. Stephen Long, Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism: The Ethics Of Paul Ramsey, Westview Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 88. From the entry adjectify

Meaning of impossibility

  1. noun Something that is impossible.
  2. noun The quality of being impossible.
  3. noun The state of being unable to do something.

Full definition of impossibility

Questions about impossibility in a sentence

How do you use impossibility in a sentence?
Impossibility is used as a noun. For example: “Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.”
What is a short sentence with impossibility?
“He must act as if fear was an impossibility.”
What does impossibility mean?
Impossibility means something that is impossible.

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