IMPREGNABLE in a Sentence

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There still reverberated in her mind the crashes of the two impregnable citadels of her life, thundering to dust about her ears.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPREGNABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impregnable
 a.  invulnerable; able to withstand attack
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  While the society of up-country Georgia was not so impregnable as that of the Coast aristocrats, no family wanted a daughter to wed a man about whose grandfather nothing was known.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never before met anyone who was so completely impregnable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The heights of Kennesaw were impregnable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The lines around Kennesaw Mountain are impregnable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  There still reverberated in her mind the crashes of the two impregnable citadels of her life, thundering to dust about her ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
6  That influence, in its last analysis, was simply the power of money: Bertha Dorset's social credit was based on an impregnable bank-account.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
7  Some weeks after, the Commodore set sail in this impregnable craft for Valparaiso.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
8  Furthermore: concerning these last mentioned Leviathans, they have two firm fortresses, which, in all human probability, will for ever remain impregnable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
9  Jurgis got up, wild with rage, but the door was shut and the great castle was dark and impregnable.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
10  Moreover, on her side, was his belief that her ethical motive in the argument was impregnable.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Like a certain class of modern philosophers, Dinah perfectly scorned logic and reason in every shape, and always took refuge in intuitive certainty; and here she was perfectly impregnable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
14  This was impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
15  The journals of the day which said that that nearly impregnable structure, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS
Example Sentence:
1  Until the development of the airplane as a military weapon, the fort was considered impregnable.
2  Despite burglar alarms and window locks, homes are never impregnable against determined thieves.
3  The professor impregnated her mind with new ideas.