INSURMOUNTABLE in a Sentence

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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.