Example Sentences

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Snow and rain have raised the normally placid Jordan River to unfordable levels.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A small force of our infantry and cavalry were surrounded by the enemy on the south bank of the Shenandoah River, which was so high as to be unfordable.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.

The Potomac was found to be so much swollen by the rains that had fallen almost incessantly since our entrance into Maryland, as to be unfordable.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Down this flowed a very large and unfordable glacial stream.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth