impassable

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• Officials said customers could experience delays, and additional routes could be suspended if roads become impassable.

• Unwisely, he took a shortcut and so missed the impassable Cabora Bassa cataracts blocking the river.

• Like a quietly heroic astronaut-to-be from Wapakoneta, Ohio, now gone, they have similar dreams that “nothing is impassable.”

• Our beach path was impassable, we found another way on the back road.

• Many roads throughout Europe are impassable—Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are particularly stricken.

• The road from the Rwanda-Congo border to Bukavu—a war-torn city on the southeastern edge of Lake Kivu—was almost impassable.

• The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily.

• The channel between Bernier and Dorre is about a mile and a half wide, but is so blocked up by rocks as to be impassable.

• The direct road was quite impassable and we were compelled to get into the city through by-streets—not an easy task.

• At Naples, where I spent six days, I saw nothing, because in bad weather the town is impassable.

• He came back, with the report that new shells had made the way impassable; and again Sara Lee shivered.