Use impossible in a sentence
Sentences starting with impossible
- Impossible for me to change. [4]
- Impossible to realize this as the force which, when distributed over the great spaces of the mills, performed an orderly and useful task! [9]
- Impossible to tell, by the convenient laws of the State, whether the duly elected delegates of Hull or Mercer or Truro are here or not, since their credentials may be bought or sold or conferred. [9]
- Impossible to go around it, and the other side must be reached. [4]
Sentences ending with impossible
- The words "murdered your mother" haunted her, and she remembered the law of the ancients which refused to prescribe a punishment for the killing of parents, because they considered such a monstrous deed impossible. [10]
- No, my churl, you know that's impossible. [11]
- No, no, what you ask is impossible. [10]
- To study nature without fear is possible, but without reproach, impossible. [6]
- No, no, the whole situation was impossible. [11]
- Yes, a fondness which only his crime makes impossible. [11]
- Still, the doubt whether he might not, after all, be magnanimous and forgive her, rose again and again to her mind, though everything led her to think it impossible. [10]
- But no, it was impossible! [10]
- It was a warm day in August, just the sort of day when an adventure of any kind seemed impossible. [4]
- Yet we do vaguely and hazily wonder why she takes the trouble to say it; why she wastes the words; what her object can be--seeing that that emergency has been in so many, many ways, and so effectively and drastically barred off and made impossible. [5]
Short sentences using impossible
- It was impossible to talk. [2]
- It was impossible to sleep. [11]
- You speak of things impossible. [11]
- She found a reply impossible. [9]
- The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. [2]
- Can't you see it's impossible? [9]
- Rivalry with it is impossible. [5]
- That solution is impossible. [9]
- But thought was impossible. [9]
- The thing was impossible. [5]
Sentences containing impossible two or more times
- Their tendency is to reject the truth which is generally accepted, and to accept the improbable; if the impossible offers itself, they deny the existence of the impossible. [6]
- It was impossible to confess his guilt-quite impossible. [10]
- I suppose the President often acts just like that: goes and makes an impossible promise, and you never find it out until it is next to impossible to break it up and set things straight again. [5]
- Just as it is impossible to say when it was decided to abandon Moscow, so it is impossible to say precisely when, or by whom, it was decided to move to Tarutino. [2]
- The thing is impossible --absolutely impossible. [5]
More example sentences with the word impossible in them
- Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
- But what, Ruth wrote, could a woman do, tied up by custom, and cast into particular circumstances out of which it was almost impossible to extricate herself? [5]
- It would be wrong, it would be impossible, to give the man anything after such insolence. [8]
- A second's thought would have convinced every one that getting out was impossible, and that the only effect of a rush would be to crash people to death. [5]
- Not to regret would have been to change his nature, and that were a feat impossible for his biographer to accomplish. [4]
- He said it would be impossible to do this, for his orders were from the council and were strict. [5]
- We tempted him with the delicacies of the season, but it soon became impossible for him to eat, and for two weeks he ate or drank scarcely anything. [4]
- When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect. [4]
- To go now, with something accomplished, and turn my back forever on the world, with one last effort to do the impossible thing for some great cause, and fail and be lost forever--do you not understand? [11]
- She received him with quite the old Hawkeye openness and cordiality, and fell to talking at once of their little acquaintance there; and it seemed impossible that he could ever say to her what he had come determined to say. [5]
- Such a fire will keep all night, with very little replenishing; and it makes a very sociable camp-fire, and one around which the most impossible reminiscences sound plausible, instructive, and profoundly entertaining. [5]
- Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
- The proud woman, who had unbent little in her lifetime, whose eyes had looked out so coldly on the world, who felt for her son Ian an almost impossible aversion, drew down his head and kissed it. [11]
- He then asked what was impossible, and I had to argue with him, sire. [11]
- I don't know what the charm is about me which makes it impossible for a person to say a harsh thing about me and say it heartily, as if he was glad to say it. [5]
- Yet that is what he did; for nothing is impossible to a Cooper person. [5]
- But to know what can and what cannot be executed is impossible, not only in the case of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in which millions participated, but even in the simplest event, for in either case millions of obstacles may arise to prevent its execution. [2]
- If suspicious characters were seen about Port Henry, or if any such landed from the steamers on the shore of Lake Champlain, it was impossible to identify them with these invaders who were never seen. [4]
- If these ladies were hogs to everybody and to themselves, it would be necessary to break the enchantment, and that might be impossible if one failed to find out the particular process of the enchantment. [5]
- The municipal geese were gone, but it was impossible to prove that this particular fox had used his enlightened reason in their procurement. [9]
- Straitened as we were for time, it was impossible to return home without a glimpse, at least, of Paris. [6]
- As the inquest went on, he had again and again looked at the hands and arms of Orlando, and it had seemed impossible that, strong as he was, his fingers had the particular strength which could have done this thing. [11]
- This does very well for a time, but it tends always to disintegration, and it is impossible to keep it exclusive. [4]
- I understand as well Dr. Latham's fear "that many men of the best abilities and good education will be deterred from prosecuting physic as a profession, in consequence of the necessity indiscriminately laid upon all for impossible attainments. [3]
- On this great wedge grim shapes loomed in the mist, uncouth and shadowy and unnatural--a lonely, mysterious Brocken, impossible to human tenantry. [11]
- And so, whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists that each is a good half, but an impossible whole. [6]
- Ask the old Washington residents whether the coming in of rich people with leisure hasn't demoralized society, or stiffened it, and made it impossible after the old sort. [4]
- So vividly personal was the influence upon him that it seemed impossible that she should not be aware of it--impossible that she could not know there was such a person in the world as Philip Burnett. [4]
- Moreover, Mr. Spence was plainly under the impression that she too "came up" from New York, and it was impossible not to be a little pleased. [9]
- Since entire concealment was now impossible, the question was,--how complete a confession would be necessary? [9]
- My cousin Philip was forever carping and criticising my Greek and Latin, and it was impossible not to feel his sneer at my back when I construed. [9]
- That in itself was courageous, because it was impossible to tell what view the master of Tralee would take of her action, ill though she was. [11]
- At mid-afternoon I was at my desk, trying to work, and this sprite had been making it impossible for half an hour. [5]
- All along I was afraid it would be impossible for you to keep up so splendidly to the end; but you were only, I see now, striking eleven. [5]
- Our great achievement was achieved--the possibility of the impossible was demonstrated, and Harris and I walked proudly into the great dining-room of the Riffelberg Hotel and stood our alpenstocks up in the corner. [5]
- To him, art was a sacred thing, and it was impossible for me to regard it with equal seriousness. [9]
- Soon, however, a warning glance from his wife brought him back and saved Lady Dargan from collapse; for it seemed impossible to talk alone to this ghost of her past. [11]
- But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. [5]
- He had grown very avaricious in his old age, and used to go off stealthily to hunt for non-existent and impossible gold among those perilous peaks and precipices. [5]
- This will breed vacillation and uncertainty in its opinions about religion, and politics, and business, and sweethearts, and everything, and will undermine its principles, and rot them away, and make the poor thing characterless, and its success in life impossible. [5]
- It has been urged against the views here maintained that it is impossible to say at what point in the ascending scale animals become capable of abstraction, etc. [1]
- It is impossible, upon its face. [5]
- Yet he insisted upon his purpose of not entering Alexandria again until he had resigned his office, and to do this at present was impossible, since he was bound just now, as if with chains, to the important frontier fortress. [10]
- A young woman unmarried, she said, always has the uneasy sense of the possibility--well, it is impossible to escape slang, and she said it with the merriest laugh--the possibility of being left. [4]
- That is impossible, unless he was reaching for the driver. [5]
- Without the auxiliary troops we shall be hopelessly lost, but with them victory is not impossible. [10]
- There were some trifles there--poor useless things--that she would have liked to take away; but that was impossible. [12]
- I wished to treat you as a friend; I hope you will not render that impossible. [6]
- He saw Iberville tossed here and there, but with impossible strength and good fortune reach the lad. [11]
- A long way, too, from the Bagatelle and Fillmore Street--but to Lise a way not impossible, nor even improbable. [9]
- There was one too many--the situation was impossible. [11]
- Really you are too impossible and wrong-headed. [11]
- They are books to which it is impossible to place any period of termination. [5]
- It was impossible to wait longer for the sculptures which were to adorn the walls. [10]
- It is impossible to turn a fellow citizen whose vote may make his master--say, rather, employer--Governor or President, or who may be one or both himself, into a flunky. [6]
- It is impossible to travel through Italy without speaking of pictures, and can I see them through others' eyes? [5]
- It is impossible to travel about Andalusia and not imbibe a kind feeling for those Moors. [4]
- It was impossible to touch a morsel. [14]
- His heart began to throb; the artist's love of his art had awaked within him; he had collected his wits, and explained to the matron that to paint in the darkness was impossible. [10]
- It is impossible to think of him as an abusive controversialist as Milton was in his controversy with Salmasius. [6]
- To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. [7]
- It is impossible to tell, in a great many cases, whether a comparison which suddenly suggests itself is a new conception or a recollection. [6]
- It is impossible to tell yet what form this feminine reserve and retirement will take. [4]
- It is impossible to tell how fresh, bracing, and inspiring was the climate of this new land. [11]
- It seemed impossible to talk naturally. [11]
- It was impossible to take Margaret with him on his sudden and tedious journeys from one end of the country to the other, but she needed a change. [4]
- It was impossible to take bread and clothes from our hungry and indispensable soldiers to give to the French who, though not harmful, or hated, or guilty, were simply unnecessary. [2]
- It was easy to swear to do these two things, but it was entirely impossible to do more than one of them. [5]
- It is impossible to suppose that Rostopchin had scared them by his accounts of horrors Napoleon had committed in conquered countries. [2]
- It was impossible to struggle against this trick of wrestling, which Laflamme had learned from a famous Cornish wrestler, in a summer spent on the English coast. [11]
- It was impossible to stay there another night. [6]
- It is impossible to say when the little worries, annoyances and disagreements began, when I first felt a restlessness creeping over me. [9]
- She was about to say something in comment, but other guests entered, and it was impossible. [11]
- It was impossible to rid myself of the picture of Mrs. Falchion as I had seen her by the precipice in the storm. [11]
- It was impossible to resist the wholesome eloquence of his temperament; he was a revelation of humanity: what he said had life. [11]
- This induced him to reject as impossible the suspicion that she could have stooped to anything so unworthy. [10]
- It is impossible to read Leuckart's able description of this organ, and his reasoning, without admitting the justness of his conclusion. [1]
- It was impossible to put him at a disadvantage. [11]
- It is fair to presume that in thirty centuries history will not get done admiring these men who attempted what the world regarded as impossible and achieved it. [5]
- It was impossible to open it without the fellah on the water-wheel seeing him. [11]
- Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. [2]
- It is impossible to match these fellows by anything this side the water. [4]
- It was impossible to make out what he wanted. [2]
- It is impossible to make any estimate, for the people are fleeing to the hills, so rapid is the rise. [5]
- The artist proposed to make a sketch of one of these primitive couples, but it was impossible to do so, because they lay in a trench which they had scooped in the sand two feet deep, and had hoisted an umbrella over their heads. [4]
- It was impossible to look into her face and not tell her. [9]
- It was impossible to live in the atmosphere created by the men with whom I associated--especially at such a time--without imbibing something of the emotions animating them,--even though I had been free from these emotions myself. [9]
- It is impossible to keep a hat neat if you use it to catch bumblebees and whisk 'em; to bail the water from a leaky boat; to catch minnows in; to put over honey-bees' nests, and to transport pebbles, strawberries, and hens' eggs. [4]
- It became next to impossible to tell what was real and what was simulated. [6]
- It was next to impossible to keep from laughing. [6]
- This, however, seemed to her so impossible and painful, so humiliating and shocking, that she sprang from her bed and for a long time paced with bare feet the sleeping-room, which was but dimly lighted by the lamp. [10]
- It was impossible to hear or to read it without honoring the preacher for his truthfulness, and recognizing the force of his statement and reasoning. [6]
- There certainly seems to have been an accident of some kind or other, but it is impossible to determine what the nature of it was, or who was the sufferer by it. [5]
- It is difficult to go to any particular place here; impossible to write of it in a direct manner. [4]
- It is impossible to go back to the same conversation, to talk of trifles is awkward, and yet the desire to speak is there and silence seems like affectation. [2]
- It was impossible to give further orders for the sake of killing time, for the orders had all been given and were now being executed. [2]
- It was impossible to give battle before information had been collected, the wounded gathered in, the supplies of ammunition replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men had had food and sleep. [2]
- It was impossible to get this whim out of him, and the young doctor had tact enough to humor him in it. [6]
- It was impossible to get the insensible body into the skiff. [11]
- It is impossible to get out of a draught, and the progress is so slow that variety enough is not presented to the eye to keep one from ennui. [4]
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