unfordable
- a word derived from ford.
Example Sentences
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He reports that his senses were so distorted that the smallest stream seemed a wide and unfordable sea, as though "my eyes were turned in."
From Time Magazine Archive
Snow and rain have raised the normally placid Jordan River to unfordable levels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Potomac was much swollen by recent rains, that had fallen incessantly ever since he had crossed it, and was unfordable.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
The rivers, swollen by the winter rains, were unfordable; therefore the travellers had to cross over bridges in full sight of fortified towns.
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
This former dry depression, which Goudy always kept free from waste water, is thus converted into a veritable lagoon, unfordable and which in time will develop into a mosquito-breeding, willow-grown swamp.
From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil
