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

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

Death becomes an uncrossable river, a wall of unbreakable glass, an obvious lie.

From Slate • May 28, 2018

In thermodynamics a zero became an uncrossable barrier: the coldest temperature possible.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife