INSURMOUNTABLE in a Sentence

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1. Even France's brilliant freestyler and anchor Yannick Agnel couldn't make up the insurmountable deficit.
2. Faced by almost insurmountable obstacles, the members of the underground maintained their courage and will to resist.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSURMOUNTABLE
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insurmountable
 a.  overwhelming; incapable of being passed over or overcome
Classic Sentence:
1  But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  They were not insurmountable; they would not hold if he really loved her; they could not hold against her own passion, which he must come to realize in time.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
3  Pierre refused without the least difficulty or effort, and was afterwards surprised how simple and easy had been what used to appear so insurmountably difficult.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  Faced by almost insurmountable obstacles, the members of the underground maintained their courage and will to resist.
2  Even France's brilliant freestyler and anchor Yannick Agnel couldn't make up the insurmountable deficit.