Example Sentences

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In a region where boundaries separating race and class could be both nebulous and uncrossable, Vroman’s redrew them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Solomon has a way of taking class lines that are often invisible and turning them into one of those laser museum security systems that you see in heist movies: neon, treacherous, uncrossable.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

I just hope they are like me in another way as well, that somewhere they have an uncrossable line.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2019

In many ways, the battle between high art and low art has been fought to a draw by now, but it seemed like an almost uncrossable barrier—sort of like the Berlin Wall—in Steinberg’s time.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2018

It was the sea, after all, that was the uncrossable moat around Robben Island.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela