Example Sentences

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The floods knocked out power and debris from landslides left roads damaged or unpassable.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

The Darién has been classified as unpassable for many years, but desperation has changed that.

From Slate • May 11, 2024

"He thought he knew the route but the route he took us was unpassable, absolutely overgrown," Mr Simpson told BBC Scotland's Landward.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023

Migrants from South America, Africa, Asia and elsewhere regularly navigate terrain that was once considered nearly unpassable but has in recent years become one of the planet’s busiest migration corridors.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

The walls of fences and unpassable hedges rose around him.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix