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How to use impossibly in a sentence

25 example sentences · adverb

Impossibly means not possibly; in an impossible manner. Example: “The topology problem was impossibly difficult.”

Examples of impossibly by meaning

adverbTo the point of impossibility.

  • The topology problem was impossibly difficult.

adverbContrary to what had been thought possible.

  • Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.
  • ANDRÉ SARAIVA, the slight 35-year-old graffitist and night-life entrepreneur, showed up at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in the Marais on a recent Saturday night in his trademark impossibly skinny jeans and a navy Thom Browne peacoat.2007 April 22, Julia Chaplin, “The Life of the After-Party”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022

More sentences with impossibly

  • An impossibly skinny legend named Violet Chachki has a thing or two to say about that.2020, Justin Kirkland, “Fits for a Queen: A RuPaul's Drag Race Style Review”, in Esquire. From the entry skinny legend
  • Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page. From the entry bias
  • If it sounds like an impossibly busy slate, it turned out to be just that.2017 September 22, Douglass K. Daniel, Anne Bancroft: A Life, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN. From the entry slate
  • I swear Ross, I have never met anyone in my life more impossibly moansome.2008, Jay McEnery, Rattus Norvegicus. From the entry moansome
  • This likens the insect to another otherish human―not impossibly cruel this time, but impossibly brilliant.2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six legs better: a cultural history of myrmecology. From the entry otherish
  • He's smart, relaxed and impossibly telegenic, with a knack for coming across as humble and sincere.2003 January 19, Abi Daruvalla, “Not Just a Pretty Face”, in Time, retrieved 02 May 2014. From the entry not just a pretty face
  • All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.2000 March 24, Shadow, “Return of the Fulgore Rant!”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet). From the entry amazing
  • Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.2000, Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House, published 2001, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry melody
  • But the paradox remains that Corvo might not impossibly be right.1907, Israel Zangwill, Italian Fantasies, page 167. From the entry all cats are grey in the dark
  • My parents had a dormer and two impossibly small twin beds with the world's chintziest chest between them.2014, Gerry House, Country Music Broke My Brain: A Behind-the-Microphone Peek at Nashville's Famous and Fabulous Stars, Dallas, Tx.…. From the entry chintzy
  • The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground.2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry plane
  • It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry unprecedented
  • It made the upper slopes look impossibly steep.1955, Edmund Hillary, “To Everest, 1951”, in High Adventure, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC; republished as High Adventure: The 50th…. From the entry Everester
  • So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.2016, Robert M. Herzog, A World Between. From the entry half
  • In any case, contemporary palates—raised on flawless, tart Granny Smiths or Red Deliciouses—would have deemed them inedible, either impossibly sour or garbage-y bland.2016, Steven Grasse, “Cider”, in Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History, New York, N.Y.: Abrams Image, →ISBN. From the entry red delicious
  • He had these impossibly dark eyes, the intense kind that looked like they knew what you were thinking, even before you did.2014, Liz Fichera, Played. From the entry eyelock
  • All of it seems impossibly old, musty, dense with the smells of upholstery and cooking: holubky; apple butter; tuna, onions, and vinegar.2002, Paul Lisicky, Famous Builder, Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry holubky
  • A boat was moored up at one: the fairy-lit waterline cabins looked impossibly cosy, the pigtailed daughter PlayStationing on the bridge painfully evocative.2001, Tim Moore, Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 296. From the entry PlayStation
  • The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229. From the entry vampire squid
  • What may be life-alteringly significant to one person may be impossibly incoherent or banal to another because the two are at different phases in their lives.1996, Barbara Powell, Windows Into the Infinite: A Guide to the Hindu Scriptures, page 182. From the entry alteringly
  • But some were straight and tall, some were squat and fairy-colored and others blossomed from thin stalks into impossibly bulbous, minareted domes, like long-stemmed tulips reproduced in stone.1954, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry minareted
  • Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e. g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 668. From the entry e.g.

Meaning of impossibly

  1. adverb Not possibly; in an impossible manner.
  2. adverb To the point of impossibility.
  3. adverb Contrary to what had been thought possible.

Full definition of impossibly

Questions about impossibly in a sentence

How do you use impossibly in a sentence?
Impossibly is used as an adverb. For example: “The topology problem was impossibly difficult.”
What is a short sentence with impossibly?
“The topology problem was impossibly difficult.”
What does impossibly mean?
Impossibly means not possibly; in an impossible manner.

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