IMPENETRABLE in a Sentence

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36 example sentences for IMPENETRABLE, such as:

1. He was transparent but impenetrable.
2. I find his style somewhat impenetrable.
3. The enigma was more impenetrable than ever.
4. Outside, the fog was thick and impenetrable.
5. Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPENETRABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impenetrable
 a.  not able to be entered; beyond understanding
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
2  That face, as impenetrable and simple as granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy depression.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
3  He was transparent but impenetrable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
4  The enigma was more impenetrable than ever.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
5  His whole life was now summed up in two words; absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
6  You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
7  It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
8  The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  His satisfaction in which happy imposition on us, and in having preserved the impenetrable secret of the box, appeared to be a sufficient compensation to him for all his tortures.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
11  He talked and looked at her laughing eyes, which frightened him now with their impenetrable look, and, as he talked, he felt all the uselessness and idleness of his words.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  At one time she would seem in love with him, and then she would become cold, irritable, and impenetrable.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 28
13  But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  The contract completed, she raised between them a barrier impenetrable as a wall.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
15  There are two lines of old yew hedge, twelve feet high and impenetrable.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
Example Sentence:
1  Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.
2  The Japanese market used to be more or less impenetrable.
3  Outside, the fog was thick and impenetrable.
4  I find his style somewhat impenetrable.
5  The men behind the bailout take refuge in impenetrable jargon.