impregnable
adjective
strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable.
impregnability
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a word derived from
impregnable.
Example Sentences
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If they can swat aside the Pumas, while injuries stretch the squad into another new shape, the impression of impregnability will only grow.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Rome’s impregnability was itself one of the founding stories Romans told themselves; Romans had long vowed that the Celtic sack of 387 BCE would be the last, and yet the Goths had shattered that myth.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Tottenham had managed to reduce the deficit by then through Harry Kane, and Christian Eriksen leveled in the 72nd minute as Spurs made a mockery of the so-called impregnability of the Bianconeri defense.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 13, 2018
And yet the prototypes of impregnability are themselves being treated with the kind of care one might expect for a Fabergé egg.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2018
The Germans, on the defensive, considered that the failure to take Thiepval at the beginning of the Somme battle proved its impregnability; the British, on the offensive, considered no place impregnable.
From My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
