IMPOSSIBILITY in a Sentence

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For IMPOSSIBILITY, below is one of 281 sentences:
But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPOSSIBILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impossibility
 n.  incapability of existing or occurring
 n.  an alternative that is not available
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Also, I know that, to many men, it is an impossibility to swim against the stream.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  I will observe, in parenthesis, that Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
3  But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
4  Prince Andrew did not reply, but his face expressed the impossibility of altering that decision.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
5  He tried to prove to the Emperor the impossibility of levying fresh troops, spoke of the hardships already endured by the people, of the possibility of failure and so forth.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
6  This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling, and seeing things each from his own point of view.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII
7  The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
9  The impossibility of keeping him concealed in the chambers was self-evident.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
10  "Then I must trouble you to give him my card," Alexey Alexandrovitch said with dignity, seeing the impossibility of preserving his incognito.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
11  At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 13
12  But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  These discussed the political situation from every point of view, and all that troubled Jurgis was the impossibility of carrying off but a small part of the treasures they offered him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
14  Their common superior, so far from encouraging them to resist, advised a speedy surrender, urging in the plainest language, as a reason, the utter impossibility of his sending a single man to their rescue.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
15  They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching tar without being defiled.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
16  It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
17  The gist of his argument is that full employment is impossible.
18  Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
19  The minefields make an all-out frontal attack almost impossible.
20  It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
21  It is impossible to measure the total supply of money in circulation.
22  It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends should be true to his country.
23  It always seems impossible until it's done.
24  The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible ".
25  No way is impossible to courage.
26  We were in an impossible situation - whatever we did, someone would be upset.
27  Never a negative acknowledge why it is impossible.
28  It is impossible for the client to recover.
29  The film was so full of commercial breaks it was impossible to enjoy.
30  It is impossible to be completely objective.