impassability

A short distance upstream the canyon narrowed into impassability.

Route impassability, airport closure, employees' safety and public safety may result in such action.

"First we must disprove its impassability," I replied.

In the distance, at the far end of the street, barbed wire and concrete testified to the utter impassability of the Wall.

The biting mist that transforms the landscape into an icy paradise can freeze the roads into impassability.

Rescuers left on the evening of the 13th, arriving only the day after because of the impassability of the roads caused by landslides and debris.

A major thoroughfare, 96th Street has for several weeks been reduced to one lane for both directions, resulting in virtual impassability and a 24-hour cacophony of horns.

Katrina's passage caused extensive shoaling of the MRGO, resulting in its impassability for deep-draft oceangoing vessels.

American commanders in particular misunderstood the impassability of the dense Hürtgen Forest and its effects of reducing artillery accuracy and making air support impracticable.

Seventeen consecutive miles of it are unpaved, as per signs at each end of the unpaved stretch; their main purpose is to warn of potential impassability in inclement weather.

The Arniko Highway climbs out of Kathmandu in long wending loops that pay twin tribute to the impassability of Himalayan terrain and the implausibility of its development.

The Gotthard Pass was known in antiquity as Adula Mons, but it was not one of the important Alpine passes due to the impassability of the Schöllenen Gorge north of the pass.

If I invent the first wheel, my brainchild is not condemned to oblivion by hereditary impassability (as any purely bodily improvement would be), I just teach my children, my apprentices, my social group, how to make more wheels.