This sounds reasonable, but in most cases it’s simply impossible or, what amounts to the same thing, prohibitively expensive. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juvenile records are sealed, so it’s impossible to reconstruct exactly what went down. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thus it is impossible to test A proton and an antiproton collide at high energy, producing a couple of almost free quarks. grand unified theories directly in the laboratory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the rain and the wind, it was impossible to try to evacuate them in the canoe. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He thought it must have been at some time in the Sixties, but it was impossible to be certain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We both agreed that American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth’s mantle was riddled with illegal tunnels, and it was impossible to police them all. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for the two sisters to take sides against either brother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a certain captivating sense of having penetrated into a secret corner of the world, but in the murderous sun it was impossible to linger. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it would be—maybe impossible. Tell me about your brother.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the piles of newspaper it was impossible to take more than two steps in any direction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to walk out on it far enough to be well over the river. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candle in the cresset still burned dimly, but the lack of windows in the stone walls made it impossible to tell whether it was dawn or the middle of the night. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When he proposed marriage a couple of years later, she found it hard to say no but impossible to say yes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But it was impossible to do so every' night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could have developed the first two virtues, but becoming a boy was sure to be difficult, if not impossible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, they would return, breathless and weak-kneed and trembling, not understanding where they’d been, but knowing they’d been somewhere too impossible to exist. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The safety of this nation,” he insisted, “cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its scientific or technical prowess. It can be based only on making future wars impossible.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between him and Hazel’s seasickness, it had been impossible to find an unoccupied toilet onboard for the past few days. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is almost impossible to enter from the east except through the tunnels. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon it was impossible to find a single egg mass, sterile or otherwise. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The idea that she could be one of those people felt impossible, but...She didn’t have another explanation for what she’d done. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my fault you’re a Spare. Or that you invoked the impossible task. It was rotten luck, but don’t take it out on me!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The mind, already jelled by the advances in modern communication so that further boggling is impossible, twitches. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because relatives were sometimes impossible to locate, the committee began to administer the estates of the deceased who had no legal heirs or executors available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I should clean those up so Dad doesn’t come home to dirty plates and mugs with impossible stains from all the hot chocolate I’ve been drinking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine using this ancient thing, and it’s almost impossible to picture it in our office down the hall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you can read, it's impossible to get lost. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if it’s hard to think “out of the box,” it may be almost impossible to think out of the Big Box. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible, but she had promised she would die in her own way, not at the hands of the ogres. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once again his face showed nothing; it was impossible to know what he was thinking. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The voice seemed to come from an impossible direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But he can’t be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim. It’s impossible. He must choose.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Another impossible dream,” Ma said, looking at the plain rice in her bowl with bitterness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is quite impossible for a body to survive in that cold for any length of time. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She says it can go bad, but all it does is get hard and impossible to spread. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that he would have become a lifeless thing in such a short time. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It is nearly impossible for modem man to imagine what it is like to live by hunting. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ebright only hardened his position: “You will not be able to get your old prices much longer, it will just be impossible to pay them... the goose that laid the golden egg is gone.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Stalin called on the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs or NKVD, a military police force of spies and assassins, to root out treachery...whether it was real or possible or even fantastically impossible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had left the others, not least because the stink of Jack Dandy’s cologne made finding anything subtler impossible. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As I washed and got changed, my mind was on fire, and it would have been impossible to chant team if Coach had asked me to. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Returning to District 8 or assimilating into another district would be impossible. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to worry about reelection. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But as much as I would have liked to, I found it impossible to tell him about my feelings, though I think he suspected. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to put her arms around him, but of course that was impossible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And it was almost impossible to be taken seriously in the business world with a name like “Ezekiel.” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seemed impossible to me, so Dad eased the rules. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Cars zipped by at impossible speeds, and clouds tumbled across the skyline as though driven by force-ten gales. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Finn could only lie in the road, pinned by Petey’s bike, as his horse, his beautiful, magnificent, impossible horse, thundered toward him, The mare reared up, shrieking, hooves hammering the air. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, anyway; those kids had all died a lifetime ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She felt bad asking him to do something so impossible. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He sat straight and nobly in the seat of Rocinante and he gave me to understand that while forgiveness was not impossible, I would have to work for it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out from the ranch instead of toward it, it’s impossible to miss I’m deep inside a forest. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell how high, or in which direction it was flying; but the sound was there for a minute or so, and then it was gone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a Stuka dived, it was impossible not to tense and shrink, though each time he thought he didn’t have the strength. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Of course, this is crazy and impossible and doomed, even if she’s a long-distance runner and has two marathon medals hanging on the doorknob of her room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Since Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed only a small amount of DNA to our present-day genome, it is impossible to speak of a ‘merger’ between Sapiens and other human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to take her if she were going to act like this, and yet he could not leave her here. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to remember the sound of her laughter, but it was impossible. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to have carried Zero up the hill from here, especially after walking all day with no food or water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

My lungs felt as if they were on fire, and breathing suddenly became impossible. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

No mention that since then more than twenty thousand Americans had died in Vietnam—all to achieve a lousy deal that allowed North Vietnam’s army to stay in the South, making a lasting peace impossible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had already carried that dream for a long time, and despite what he thought of Odessa, it was impossible to let it go. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t impossible, since there were people selling things like old black-and-white photos of random people, rusty screws, paintings and drawings—some were cool and some were lame. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Living in Faerie, it’s impossible not to notice that everyone else smells like verbena or crushed pine needles, dried blood or milkweed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I like the colors next to each other and wonder what kind of impossible things I can draw about ice cream. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I'm glad my hiding place makes it impossible for the cameras to get a close shot of me because I'm biting my nails like there's no tomorrow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And even though, as we knew, it was completely impossible for any of us to have babies, out there, we had to behave like them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to say because there were too many possible causes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I had imagined the search effort was accurate, but each article had a small detail that grounded the incident, yet made it seem impossible that I had experienced the same accident. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was sometimes impossible for parents to see what attracted them, but such gut responses were not to be ignored. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came time to eat my industrial food chain meal, since it was impossible to follow Naylor’s corn or steer 534 directly to my plate, I had a lot of choices. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, that sounds boring. Also impossible. Like, how are we all going to get there? The guards won’t let us walk that way after dinner; it’s straight back to our blocks, remember?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The rooftop of the State House, where the Congress met, was visible, but the August haze and dust from the street made it impossible to see farther than that. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to make out what she was saying over the sound of planes and distant concussions, so we took off running across the bog. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When they combed through the ashes of the house it was impossible to pick his body from those he had harbored, as the fire had eliminated the differences in their skin, leveling them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The bluebells were so thick underfoot that it was impossible not to tread on them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Bigger lifted his eyes and looked at the furnace; it seemed impossible that she was there in the fire, burning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood nearly eight feet high, locked together with a set of cables that crisscrossed from one machine to the other, making it impossible to move between them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nailer strained to see the speck on the horizon where Lucky Girl was running, but it was impossible. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But keeping up with the outpouring of love, including messages from the author of the Scorpius Hawthorne series, is ten times more impossible than usual. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If the Hall of Elders held records of everything, even impossible tasks, maybe they would find new information about the Cursed Toads too. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A chirping ring that was almost impossible to hear under the screaming of the fire alarm. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible for us to sink,” was what she came up with. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Here they were at the heart of Tartarus, facing an impossible army—she would take any comfort she could get. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to guess how many gallons but it had to be at least a hundred. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Makes you hard to burn. But not impossible, youngling. Not impossible.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Anya tried not to gawk at the castle as they moved through it, but it was nearly impossible not to. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even in his imagination, it was impossible for him to steal anything or do anything really bad. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was so ashamed—the kind that feels like suffocating—and the longer I waited, the more the shame grew and the more impossible it got to admit what I’d done. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The main street intersects with other streets in midair that lead from windowsill to windowsill, connecting the impossible. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After months of negotiations, Slater, backed by Kissinger, had accomplished the impossible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to think of dogs, and it was driving him crazy. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

One side of it was solid earth, the other a dense screen of thorns and branches impossible to see through but with enough cracks and crevices to admit a little air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, without a high school diploma or job training— and with a criminal record—Wes found it almost impossible to find a job to support his growing family. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Well, she had done the impossible: she had said no. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So, now, Ally...that big piece of paper in your hand says possible. There is no impossible anymore, okay?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No one’s going to hurt me. It’s impossible to hurt me.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Braden knew from his work in tennis that that is impossible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to keep the Fifth Avenue drums separate from the belt-buckle tunes vibrating from pianos and spinning on every Victrola. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's impossible this afternoon. Various----" We talked like that for a while and then abruptly we weren't talking any longer. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the entire history of our marriage, it was the only secret I kept from her, and eventually it became impossible to fix. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Disappointment with the collapse of his plan and perhaps also his weakness brought on his severe hunger made it impossible for him to move. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the coffin’s absence, his back straightened and, saying something impossible for Pinmei to hear, took hold of Lady Meng’s arm as if to take possession of her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Adding a third would have been impossible, so the idea never went beyond Regina’s wish. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was as big as two refrigerators, and it made it impossible for the room to have a table or anything else in it, like ours did. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the booths, you looked directly into the tank; it was impossible to see above the surface. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had hardly gotten used to the idea of being a Spare; now she’d have to deal with whatever the impossible task would be. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Your heart is going so fast it's impossible to hear the separate beats. All one hears is a soft humming sound." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper discovered that when a penguin has found steps going up somewhere, it is absolutely impossible to keep him from climbing them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had heard it—where, or whence, for ever impossible to know! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She believed in love so much, it was impossible not to feel giddy when she talked about it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

This was the first time that the young King had seen her, and she knew that the was looking her best It is impossible to explain how these things happen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always tried finding somewhere else to sleep, away from the sick, but it was almost impossible. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew only that it was impossible to count them, and that this was somehow due to the mysterious identity between five and four. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t touch her without shattering her, and so—as Lazlo had told Sarai—he had made peace with the impossible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to make her way through the brush, but the twins made it impossible. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, many researchers believed it was impossible to keep tissues alive outside the body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the presence of such dangers, avoided with such skill but with difficulty, it seems to us impossible not to fear some sort of catastrophe in the future. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many other times during the impossible task, Seven felt helpless. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She also found it hard to believe that we could get to America with the help of white people; it seemed like an impossible dream. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s impossible to miss what you never had. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But when he thought hard about it it seemed impossible that they could have. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our trouble is still existent. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had Daedalus, a great architect and inventor, construct a place of confinement for him from which escape was impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It proved to be almost impossible to start. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“While her dear father lived, any change of condition must be impossible for her. She could never quit him.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butlers never hesitate, not even when they are faced with the most impossible problems. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even those family members who continue to live seem dead somehow, always invisible, impossible to touch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to stay longer, but Aunty Ifeoma said we had to leave, because it would be impossible to drive out if we waited until most people were leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight as if he were going to get up out of his wheelchair, but I knew that was impossible. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Annabel was scowling, and two seats over, Liana Brock was making her face go blank, as if she hadn’t seen anything, which was totally impossible. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After five months had gone by, the Canadians said: “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A destructive El Nino episode in about 1100 a.d. made irrigation impossible for a while. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“With the wars between the tribes, it’s impossible to cross the desert. So I have come here.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granted that the easygoing optimism of yesterday is impossible. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Getting air from outside to inside is nearly impossible. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had finally come to understand something that would have seemed obvious had it not seemed impossible: Milligan, the missing agents, Mr. Bloomburg—they had all had their memories stolen. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face in the shadows is impossible to read. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It's impossible to tell how many hourglasses have passed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Quietly, some laboratory employees complained about the “New York communist people” and the “practically impossible New York Jews” recruited to work at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“This is impossible,” Bailey says, peering out over the ledge. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The tape was so dim and shaky that it was almost impossible to see what was going on. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

What it is is warped with memory of what it was and that with what happened there to me, the whole bundle wracked until objectiveness is nigh impossible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad always practiced what he preached, and it was just about impossible to tell where his scientific management company ended and his family life began. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one knows this about a man, it is impossible for one to hate him, but unless he becomes a man—becomes equal—it is also impossible for one to love him. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The day was sparkling, and it seemed impossible to be anything other than grateful for the chance to stand in the ocean, looking out at the horizon while the salt water smacked them around. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The job had sounded impossible when he arrived fresh off his first year of college, looking to make some summer money, still a skinny teenager with sandy blond hair and a narrow, freckled face. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But the figure had vanished so quickly in the fog that it was impossible for Jonathan to be sure. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was impossible: there were hundreds of Redcoats milling around on the training ground—maybe thousands, even. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they hurtled through the underground passage, a tiny ship on this impossible sea, Royals endorsement achieved its purpose. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A few days later, asked for his opinion of a rumor circulating about that a “Red Chinese” plot brought about the murder, Farmer said, “I would not say it is impossible.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One stated, “In developing countries, people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis usually die, because effective treatment is often impossible in poor countries.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And any books on previous impossible tasks were housed in a forbidden section, which you needed special permission to access. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When combined with the collaborative character of the drafting process, it becomes virtually impossible to tell where one voice ends and another begins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The roads, still packed with vendors, felt even more crowded than before, so compressed with people that it was impossible to walk without being jostled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I easily recognize them—business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine Lucy at this place, but then I think of the bright blue eye shadow I saw her wearing in that picture, and it doesn’t seem so impossible. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She caught herself, realizing that it would be impossible for him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t remember, and besides it was impossible to know what action might later be construed as a crime. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunbird’s mud flap, flecked bloody green by the wetlands massacre, was impossible to miss. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For me that statement is impossible to say because of one little reason: I am an illegal immigrant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His conclusion was that life on Mars—by this he meant civil engineers with an interest in hydraulics—was impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to find any privacy there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a cross between a Rottweiler and a German shepherd, and he stinks a kind of stink that’s impossible to rid him of. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to think with all his excitement. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be impossible to stay there, but leaving held no attraction for me, either. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it would have been next to impossible in that deep snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy tried to shield them from all this but it was impossible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, indeed,” they repeated together; “but if we’d told you then, you might not have gone—and, as you’ve discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to find you, Frodo, in the wilderness, and it would have been folly to try with all the Nine at my heels. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to tell if Zizmo is trying to turn, to brake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Telling a falcon and a raccoon to be best friends was almost impossible. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I can’t walk away, or the guilt, the weight of Will’s life, and my parents’ lives, and now Marlene’s life, will break my bones, will make it impossible to breathe. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He did not, you notice, say that transmutation was impossible; but he approached the problem scientifically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell what was going on in his head. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible for it to pass the sharp nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ready to go alone among a crowd of suspicious strangers, but what he stood to gain from this risk it was impossible to guess. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the toy and his shoulders sagged under some invisible, impossible weight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She been trying to get fired from Smart Aid all summer, and it had proved next to impossible. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It made it not only difficult to forget him but quite impossible. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father told me that when his grandfather was a boy, it was not impossible for one to see a dragon or even a longma. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This was impossible, as he toted the gangly cat with him everywhere, tucked into the bib of his overalls. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That seems impossible, even to my wild mind. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jam looked away; it was impossible not to. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To talk about the night before was impossible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The squares are so small and the people are so many it’s going to be nearly impossible to pick out one in the crowd. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She began to unwind it, and when it was impossible to pass her hand under his leg, she used scissors to cut the dressing away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stopping the floods of the city seemed an impossible task. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Upon his return from Brazil, the unmistakable impression was given that she considered collaboration even more impossible than before. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to describe how tenderly I suddenly feel toward them—hyenas, camels, and all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to get round the problem that Papin’s steam-pressure engine could not be made to work to power a boat unless it was implemented on a large scale. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Harry climbed out of the trapdoor and replaced it — it blended so perfectly with the dusty floor that it was impossible to tell it was there. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rocky had reasoned it out with him; it was impossible for the dead man to be Josiah, because Josiah was an old Laguna man, thousands of miles from the Philippine jungles and Japanese armies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible for Papa to vanish from the earth without an explosion of grief from the air itself. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was also the fact that, though Herman was obviously civilized, it was impossible to understand him. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

How impossible it would’ve been for those two young people to envision where their lives would lead them. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to hear the man from the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Vikus tells me you are very anxious to return home. It pains me that we cannot aid you immediately, but to seek the surface tonight would be impossible,” she said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You’re supposed to close your eyes or exit toward the back, but as we are in the middle of a long row, I figure it’s pretty much impossible to escape. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd stampedes toward the door, which leads to more cussing and fighting since it’s impossible for everybody to get out at once. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When black youth find it difficult or impossible to live up to these standards—or when they fail, stumble, and make mistakes, as all humans do—shame and blame is heaped upon them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for Frodo to walk, so they divided the greater part of their baggage among the four of them, and put Frodo on the pony. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tired as Tally was, carrying the board didn’t seem so impossible this time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And they immediately understood it for what it was—a signal that they needed to do what was impossible, to go even higher. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Soon all the embassies were ringed with barbed wire and machine guns and it was impossible to continue taking them by storm; but then there were other needs to keep her busy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Palmer locked the cell, Ben asked, his voice so tremulous as to make speech nearly impossible, “Why am I in here, sir? Don’t you have to charge me with something?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lie next to each other in silence all night, looking up at the impossible mind-blowing awesomeness of the universe, and I don’t think either of us sleeps a minute. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not even fall back on the pretense that he had come to borrow the dictionary, because in that case Julia’s presence was impossible to explain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Says it's the sort of thing that's quite impossible to prove. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The offer he was making sounded impossible, even more dangerous than her original plan, but... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He never wrote out fair copies of these jottings for me, fugitive as were the marks and impossible of interpretation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Not something expensive or impossible to find; not something encoded in DNA or hardwired into the circuits of their brains. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s impossible to forget about something that haunts me every time I dose my eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was hard enough not being able to read the map without having to worry about missing the landmarks altogether, but with the moon hiding behind a cloudy sky, they were both impossible. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It seems impossible to imagine that there was a time when I looked upon a live sea turtle as a ten-course meal of great delicacy, a blessed respite from fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Train cars were lined up, people thronging so thick it was impossible to make out individual bodies. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The extra work made it impossible for them to keep up with the canoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Now frowning, now smiling a secret smile, Turtle acted the part of every brilliant lawyer she had seen on television who was about to win an impossible case. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to obtain any further information from the girl. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was clear to me that a military victory was a distant if not impossible dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great irony of anthracite is that, tough as it is to light, once you get it lit it’s nearly impossible to put out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the Jade Emperor decided that the situation was impossible. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell how far she had traveled. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell if she was old or young, but her expression was austere and compassionate, and both Will and Lyra felt as if she knew them to their hearts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wished to cry, and made some attempts; but found it impossible. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And anyway, if what he said is true, that motion is impossible, then I wouldn’t really be able to jump off a bridge, would I? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had sat here in the cacophonous darkness and felt some kind of desperation take her over, and maybe she found it impossible to unthink the thought of death. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

That it was impossible for him to even consider making the bed, or washing clothes or dishes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh God. This is going to be impossible.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but now that I’ve acknowledged it, it’s impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The neon sign above the gate was impossible for me to read, because if there’s anything worse for my dyslexia than regular English, it’s red cursive neon English. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I meant to, but when I was looking at him, the words were impossible to say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Just then, Seven knew how she would end the piece about the impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Try as he might, it was impossible not to draw the obvious comparison. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had no ear for music at all, and found it impossible to tell if one note was higher or lower than another. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But that was impossible, because there were further surprises. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dad had little formal education in mathematics but it was impossible to doubt his aptitude: somehow I knew that if I put the equation before my father, he would be able to solve it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it was impossible to keep her eyes off them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Followed Jackson in command of the old Stonewall Brigade; at Kemstown he has made the mistake of withdrawing his men from an impossible position. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as they climbed higher and higher, London unfurling below them like a gray-and-green map, Harry’s overwhelming feeling was of gratitude for an escape that had seemed impossible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But to drag all three boats—Shackleton knew that was impossible. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Sheet metal whipped overhead, flying like a kite—a roof, a bit of ship, it was impossible to tell. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was also impossible to know how many innocent people picked up the bacteria from the prisoners on these stops. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to get to the water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how much damage those sharks have done to it underneath. It’s quite impossible to tell from up here.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a misty, cold evening, just dark, with a heavy low-lying fog, and even with the light on the back of the barn, it was impossible to see anything. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If you hold it,” said Malcolm, “I’ll put the sand in. It’s almost impossible for one person on their own. I suppose if you made a frame to hold it...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The roar of the wind made it impossible to communicate from one tent to the next. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Seoul, even when he was surrounded by solicitous and well-informed friends, Shin found it all but impossible to ask for help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

‘But suppose none of us can get out? Gage knows we’d send word—if we could. He may guard the town so well it will be impossible.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And even though it seems impossible that he could feel something for me, given all that I’m not . . . maybe it isn’t. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It isn’t for lack of want—I’ve tried several times to look for him—but it seems my best friend has turned into a shadow, impossible to find. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"Once the water starts flowing in the new channel,” Woods said, "it is almost impossible to put it back in the old as the new channel rapidly downcuts and establishes itself.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The shattering beats made it impossible for me to think — which was the whole purpose of the exercise. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lack of treatment makes compliance with the myriad rules that define prison life impossible for many disabled people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to glower at Sohrab, but it was impossible, because he was squinting again and I ended up laughing instead. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible for Washington to close the gap. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to reach the button more than anything, but it was impossible to walk with an arm where my leg should have been. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t play chess, it was nearly impossible to enter Bobby’s world, and yet his disrespect seemed to be directed more at weak players than those who didn’t know how to play the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were little knots of people sitting in conversation groups, the kind I find it impossible to join. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were virtually impossible to cross-pollinate and rarely generated hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don’t expect me to describe it, that’s impossible, so I’ll only say it was sublime! Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t impossible to get to six million links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to eat this food and walk. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that I’m still standing upright is impossible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The dense hedge walls that comprised the maze were ten feet tall, making it impossible to peek over them, even if you stood on top of one of the benches placed throughout the labyrinth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In a town this small, it was impossible not to. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just “hanging on” turned out to be impossible as Westmoreland appealed to Johnson for more troops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was an act of impossible fate, because in the confusion of her indignation, in the fury of her shame, she had lied to him so that he would never know her real identity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like the idea she could actually help someone sounds impossible to her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to imagine this baby self. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mo's constant easygoing nature made it impossible for me to stay mad. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And as the silence continued, it became more and more impossible to think of something to say. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise never let up: car horns, bicycle bells and the cracking of whips combined to produce a deafening bewildering clamour, amid which is was impossible to heed every warning sound. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would soon discover their mistake, for every one would be opened, until the place became impossible to defend. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy found it impossible to keep her eyes off her ‘pitty aunty’, but attached herself like a lap dog to the wonderful chatelaine full of delightful charms. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path of vitiligo is impossible to predict and occurs differently in every patient. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because he was a mouse, Ralph found sleeping at night almost impossible. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It will be almost impossible to clear a path through their midst, but it’s vital that Leale get Lincoln someplace warm and clean, immediately. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is so blank, it’s impossible to read. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Baba was impossible to ignore, even in his sleep. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We now know it is impossible to have an infinite static model of the universe in which gravity is always attractive. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin knew that that was impossible, that he would always be intertwined with the things he had done, the families he had had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost impossible for a real musician to do anything worth listening to anymore. Now it’s all I-don’t-know-what.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He towered above all in the chamber and his beard flamed around a face so scarred with old wounds it was impossible to tell where one began and another ended. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to sort out a stranger who was simply taking a shortcut by walking across the field from one with bad intentions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He always searched the boys, expecting to find Somkit’s face grinning back at him, even though he knew it was impossible. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Drinking water can be impossible to come by. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was the teasing and impossible desire to imitate the petty pride of sparrows wallowing and flouncing in the red dust of country roads. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so quick it was almost impossible to follow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them and each one was all but impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that I would really be allowed to go. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ignore him the way he was ignoring Samira and me, but it was impossible. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His impossible blue eyes sparkled in the sun. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but it’s almost impossible for me to get to school on time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know, I’m a Spare witch, with an impossible task and a Nightbeast to defeat.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The “impossible” is now happening on two broad fronts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Because you are the one who filled her with them. Making her believe she could change our miserable fortune with an impossible story! Ridiculous!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that in 2005, in the United States, there was an entire city cut off from all communication, all contact. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It seemed no more than a shadow in the mist, as impossible to determine as their fate. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of living long enough to be an adult and have kids of his own—that seemed like an impossible dream. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was nearly impossible to get into the country without either a sponsor or stunning professional recommendations. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Still, there are times—like now—when it’s next to impossible not to smile, and the smiling is contagious, and then so is the cracking up. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to miss them, to not step aside and turn away when they passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I should have known that tracing a single bushel of industrial corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it’s been poured into a river. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Such a movement is impossible, though, if those most committed to abolishing racial hierarchy continue to talk and behave as if a state-sponsored racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for them to take their usual walk. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were parts of the college experience I yearned to have, but that were impossible as a college athlete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When she had come back home, social conversation was impossible for her because she could not lie. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because he understood that it was nearly impossible for me to put my own happiness first. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

One of the problems, ironically, was that there were too many observations, which when brought together often proved contradictory and impossible to resolve. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A big, overstuffed, almost impossible to move couch. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absence, José Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The troll squeezed tighter, somehow securing a grip on the helmet’s anti-friction coating, which, according to Foaly, was impossible to grip. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The self-destructing tape never told the mission-impossible team how to complete their impossible mission, but the team always seemed to know. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my little sister was impossible to have a conversation with. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

O’Brien knew that in this neighborhood it was nearly impossible to get a doctor who would make house calls. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To support the two of them, and to have money left over to send back home, Barlea had an almost impossible work schedule. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I could see the stars all right in the dark, but it was next to impossible to find the horizon at night. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very funny story that took shockingly impossible twists and turns and left us in awe. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So they proceeded after that as if they were climbing a dangerous mountain, until the rocks became an uncompromising cliff, overhung with impossible jungle and falling sheer into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to tell the difference between idle threats and serious ones. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to know whether you had done well. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He found it impossible to concentrate on work, though he did try. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the presence of such dangers, avoided with such skill but with difficulty, it seems to us impossible not to fear some sort of catastrophe in the future. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swift’s text was teasingly incomplete, so that it was impossible to tell who had emerged victorious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If everything in the universe depends on everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at Dee and I think that Zeno was totally right, even though that’s not what he meant: For people, motion is sometimes impossible. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And then we opened up Jane Eyre and picked out words that pretty much looked impossible but we figured them out because of what we were learning about letters and their sounds working together. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Balancing school with work made it impossible for him to finish his studies in four years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The roots sank so deep that the vine was nearly impossible to remove. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of his breath made it impossible to think. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So it sounds ridiculous, but it’s not impossible, and by the time I got home last night I had convinced myself that I was in some way involved in Megan’s disappearance. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to dream, or to see, or to have a vision of someone whom you never have seen before—and to see him exactly as he is. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to stand still where the ground was black with ants, but there was nowhere else to go. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others did what today would seem almost impossible. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible. I’m the son of Hades, and even I barely survived. Gaea’s forces overwhelmed me instantly. They’re so powerful down there...no demigod would stand a chance. I almost went insane.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Walking a straight line proved to be impossible. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For black activists like Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, and many others, it was impossible to separate one’s status as a woman from one’s status as an African American. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As much as Dad liked to tell stories about himself, it was almost impossible to get him to talk about his parents or where he was born. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Old people shook their heads, recalling blizzards of their childhood, but it was impossible for Kit to visualize anything more bleak than this first winter of her experience. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar fought like he had struck many a white man, an impossible occurrence or else he would have been in the grave long ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I clench my hands as hard as I can and conclude that this would be impossible, especially considering Therese’s weakness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“If these are your last, unchangeable proposals,” he told Kissinger, “settlement is impossible.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dorian picked up a cowboy boot from which a heel had been broken and dropped it into a wastebasket, wondering whether that impossible Ignatius J. Reilly was all right. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s almost within reach now, but the water is beating at his back, making it seem impossible that he hasn’t been swept away yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Safford raced downstairs and out into the crowd, but “finding it impossible to go further, as everyone acted crazy or mad,” he retreated. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped forward and saw that the wrapping read “$10,000,” which seemed impossible, because the stack was so small—a quarter-inch high at the most. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For a Galileo, or a Pascal, or a Newton what mattered was being able to make successful predictions where such predictions had previously been impossible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to not think about all these things. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Education for her boys was next to impossible. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to win against the Headmaster. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One could well measure it but to give an idea of it would be impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, crop diffusion from Indonesia south to southwestern Australia was completely impossible, and diffusion over the much shorter distance from Mexico to the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it was her turn to give an account of recent months, it was impossible not to be influenced by Leon’s tone, though her version of it came through, helplessly, as mockery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He heard the soft sounds of her sleep, but he knew that sleep would be impossible for him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to imagine that my body would be in any of those places. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible to be certain without seeing the eyes,” she said, “but the possibility that you were followed to the island concerns me very much.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to have real friendship when no one feels like they can accept help or even talk about themselves. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant acting independently, and since staying awake all night was impossible, they had both gone to sleep. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

This stampede is impossible to get through and I can’t reach Rufus and I’m not going to be able to touch him again while he’s still alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Connor thinks everything’s impossible for him, and he’s all mad about it, so he tried to act like everything’s impossible for me, too. He’s being a big baby and feeling sorry for himself.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no’m,” he breathed softly, knowing that she did not believe him, but finding it impossible to answer her in any other way. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One had to be an impossible wish, another a wish that you could make come true yourself, and the third had to be a wish for when you grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, Francis found it impossible to believe that Bragg could have been so dense as to have missed his oft-repeated idea, and he as much as told Bragg this. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Citra found it next to impossible to imagine Scythe Curie as a little girl. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When you go to a school as large as ours, it’s impossible to know everyone, but even in a school as large as ours you definitely know someone who was friends with Rashad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I was fixin’ to preach about David and Goliath this morning, because David was young, and brave, and faced an enemy who seemed to be impossible to defeat. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s grainy, and details are almost impossible to make out, but something triggers an old memory that makes my stomach churn. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to do so casually, as it was in a corner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I saw how impossible and embarrassing it would be for me to try to switch from my free program into the stricter one. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Songololo kept pulling on it and screaming, yanking her leash taut, which made it impossible to turn the stake so it would pass through. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like me, she was someone impossible to easily peg in terms of ethnic background. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The few trails that exist there are almost impossible to see in the dark, and the pair are soon lost and frustrated. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She felt like speech was impossible, but knew she had to say something. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I know guessing a password is probably impossible, but I have to make an effort. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It's impossible to be anything but what he asked me to be. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Despite how much I hated him, I couldn’t stand to see it I wanted to believe he was still alive, but that was impossible. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Inside it there were three knights and a seasick brachet Anything less suitable than these to the tradition of the Gaelic world, It would have been impossible to imagine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In any case it would be impossible to bump you from the back, because the forelegs are in front” The bump! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joshua had always expected that Katherine would earn a graduate degree, but the circumstances made finishing the program impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He’d wrapped his scarf around his mouth, and between that and the wind howling down Central Park West, it was impossible to understand what he was saying. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was easy to guide a man’s strength where it was impossible to resist him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to miss seeing the car. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

You must be difficult and impossible to ignore. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The roof would be difficult because her bad leg made it almost impossible for her to climb. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell what he was thinking; his face remained quite blank as he put the little cache of stolen objects back into the cardboard box. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible for me to be all smiles one day and venomous the next. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible. She knows that as well as I do. I’ve told you already.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cressida has us sit in the nook in the rocks, where it’s impossible not to be touching, and coaxes us into talking about hunting. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If someone knows you’re going for the weapon, sorry, despite what you see in kung fu movies, it is nearly impossible to get the weapon without getting hurt. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Yet these civil penalties, although not considered punishment by our courts, often make it virtually impossible for people who have been convicted of crimes to integrate into the mainstream society and economy upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for such a young goose to understand technical things like computer brains and batteries and machines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intense lights always made it impossible to see the audience, and that always made the whole thing bearable for me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had a phobia about the vidphone and found making a call, especially to a stranger, virtually impossible. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

This time, the uneasiness is impossible to shake. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Even though seeing the title from our blanket would be pretty much impossible, since the tire swing was all the way across the park. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their gallants— young squires in the height of fashion, many of them wearing Mordred’s badge as Thrashers—came mincing in with their long-toed shoes, in which it was impossible to walk upstairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never make it. It’s impossible. It’s almost a geographical impossibility to get there from here.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Change your place of work and you may be confronted with an impossible topographical problem to solve, or at least a reluctant driver to persuade. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gran had been called away to another town, the Uncle indisposed, just like they had been during the impossible task in 1965. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to distinguish the words or melody. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the performance continued to happen, once a week quite regularly, whenever it was not impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity—of anger and hellish rage—which came over the Count’s face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Should I end the agony of impossible choices by ending my life? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible for two people to browse side by side. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Most of Twig’s egg drop designs ended up being impossible to create, which was pretty unsurprising, but she insisted on making as many as she could and testing those out. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Studying data on human structural limits compiled by Finnish mathematicians, famed track coach Brutus Hamilton penned an article for Amateur Athlete magazine stating that a four-minute mile was impossible. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

What I had was more Buckwheat: unruly and impossible to comb, like stabbing a pitchfork into a bed of crabgrass. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once the revolution began in earnest in Hankow, it was impossible to ignore it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, in spite of the endless arrests and confessions and executions, to be sure that the Brotherhood was not simply a myth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It doesn't take that long to cross one block, I remind myself, so crossing one hundred streets is not impossible. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Without writing, the growth we have known would have been impossible. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king had his court musicians, one of whom was Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, devise a tune specially, one they mischievously knew was practically impossible to turn into a fugue without creating horrible dissonances. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to not think about that all the time. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This woman, in all her eccentricities and in her appearance, is almost impossible to describe, but I shall make some attempt to do so a little later on. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could rewind the clock, but I know that’s impossible. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A potential key to the secret of life was impossible to push out of my mind. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Up in the black, were there roads through the stars, traveled by impossible beings? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Cordelia is a weasel, but since she’s in a weasel costume with a weasel head, it’s impossible to tell her apart from all the other weasels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There really were only three guards left, plus the one who had gone for help—it seemed impossible we shouldn’t be able to get the better of them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They had not killed the Nightbeast, but they had stopped it, which was enough to satisfy the impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even now, in spite of the gin, the dull ache in his belly made consecutive thought impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The guy who said motion is impossible,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It makes predictions and claims that are almost impossible to falsify since an alternative formulation consistent with what happened is always easy to dream up. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah teases, “What about you? It’s impossible for you!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Trying to control your own destiny. It’s not just hard; it’s impossible.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Before now, she never knew she longed for anything besides the impossible return of her mother. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He puts on his potato-peeling face, and when it’s set in that particular way, it would be impossible for him to turn out anything less than a perfectly peeled potato. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Harry, let’s get out, let’s get out!” bellowed Ron, though it was impossible to see where the door was through the black smoke. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s delicate and impossible to harvest with machines—you have to pinch them out of the flower by hand. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Attuned to each other to an almost spooky degree, they achieved things that others considered impossible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had tried to keep awake, but it had been impossible. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Between the long march in the impossible shoes and the scant and awful breakfast, how could they now work all day? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The impossible had happened: life at Levy Pants had become even better. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island, coated with such tightiy woven, rubbery vegetation, was an ideal place to relearn how to walk I could fall any which way, it was impossible to hurt myself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible. Asking you and the other Library Olympians to work together for a higher, common purpose? Forget I even mentioned it. Dr. Zinchenko?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible for someone like Miss Volker, who loved people, to turn around and hurt them. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to know what was going through his mind at that point, for his journal betrays nothing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to leave. It seemed impossible that the city could ever get back on its feet again. But I knew I had the power to make things better.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Seven had thought it impossible to believe that she could ever be the second-most-powerful witch in her town, since a Spare had never ever been an Uncle before. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

For Marsha, it was impossible not to notice that some women never got visits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought my task was impossible, I felt the hook slide under the tough leather. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wanted to say impossible, but she remembered Athena’s bitter words in Grand Central Station, the burning hatred in her eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later the whole building was in flames, and it was impossible to breathe because of the bombs and the smoke. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to say in front of the guards what Natalie needed to do. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s not my boyfriend,” Violet says, and Ryan looks so hurt that I almost feel bad for him, except that it’s impossible to feel bad for a guy like him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If Newt and the others hadn’t been able to solve the Maze after two years of searching, it seemed impossible there could actually be a solution. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Hands clapping, happy tears flowing, prayers, both small and impossible, heard and answered. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But the flare of temper that overtook her made it all but impossible to stop the flood of words leaving her mouth. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell if any of the other houses around them had been hit too. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now, however, the night feels like one long, impossible dream. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to keep the snow off the lens, and after a time he gave up trying. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s as if it were physically impossible for me, as if I were allergic to rules. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The head was impossible to see because of the red beam of light shining right at him, though it seemed small, vision its only purpose, perhaps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His voice is impossible to miss, the one no student ever wants to hear in the cafeteria, or anywhere else, really: grizzly, smoked too much over the years, always a few decibels louder than necessary. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tie his wrists and arms together without first getting that arm out from underneath him. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted to please them both, but this seemed impossible. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It would explain why he’s been impossible to find.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Let me qualify my previous statement: It was next to impossible for me to get fired from Smart Aid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The stranger said it all so calmly, so softly, that it was impossible to laugh. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that the night before a protest, it’s impossible to sleep. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was this that made it impossible for him to crush us altogether—we always reckoned that later, at the end of the war, we would have our revenge on him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further conversation became impossible, and in less than ten minutes Francis was out of the Professor’s office. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re not Snape!” croaked Harry, before something whooshed over him like cold air and his tongue curled backward on itself, making it impossible to speak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but I’ll try. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 1918, asking that soldier’s permission to take tissues for this kind of future research would have been impossible, Korn says. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’s acting too frightening to love, and her lies are another rejection, but she’s in an impossible bind she can’t fake her way out of. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I realize that my choices are impossible, and I have no idea what I’m going to do. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I won’t stop you. I want this to happen, because I want you to be safe. And yet, I want to be with you. The two desires are impossible to reconcile. ...” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The speed was impossible; at the mile mark, they were nearly a full second faster than a fifteen-year-old speed record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, rationally, that such a thing was impossible, but for some reason it felt true. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed an impossible task for an industry that as recently as 1938 had only provided the Army Air Corps with ninety planes a month. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They all wanted different colors and decals, and it was impossible to get them to sit still long enough for the polish to dry. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

And yet my old life was as impossible to return to as the children’s bombed house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Marina said, “The whistling of the wind and the noise of the incoming tide made it impossible to distinguish individual words. All the same, it was good to hear the voices.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It is almost impossible for a man who enjoys freedom with all its prerogatives, to realize what it means to be deprived of that freedom.”—Said by Erie Stanley Gardner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I see it, it’s an impossible task. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seem to recognize the place, but it’s impossible. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skirt looks unearthly, impossible, a ball of white fire. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, Brian thought, watching the bank at the end of the curve come at him, they were impossible to turn. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb was homemade, and it would have been impossible to determine exactly when it would explode. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The long-lasting, crowded populations suggested in Acre are exactly the sort that archaeologists long thought were ecologically impossible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The profit in illegal tobacco is so high that the smuggling is almost impossible to control.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even now she found it impossible to hate him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to answer questions: too much noise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come at a time when it was impossible anymore to ignore Hispanics, and he made good from that circumstance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been wearing human clothing, Anya suspected he would be nearly impossible to see. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At first she thought the idea was impossible. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now the rapidly deepening snow obscured the narrow road and made the ride impossible. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to know what he is thinking. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to get real cafe au lait in this country!’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They look soft and fuzzy, but you know if you touch them, tiny spikes will get stuck in your fingers, hurt like crazy, and be impossible to get out. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now that I was looking for them, they were impossible to miss. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Gran gestured for the Spares to come forward, and as they stood there lined up, she made a giant X over their heads, magic to seal the contract until the impossible task began. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His bones were clearly outlined and the wrap of his arms was flat, in a way that would be impossible if he had some flesh underneath the skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

June, Nora, and Pez all emerge disheveled from their suite looking like the cats that caught the canaries, but it’s impossible to tell who is a cat and who is a canary. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But regardless, some of these collapsed loops and hasty scribbles are impossible to make out. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible, but somehow this man was doing a dead- on impression of my middle school bus driver, Mr. Barron. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t expect the city to flood, but he knew a flood was not impossible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Not wondering about impossible things is how I’ve managed to be relatively Zen. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it seems impossible to unravel myself from their lives. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake, surely impossible...though was there a slight possibility that Dumbledore might have known some of his past misdeeds, through the orphanage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By the early 1900s, it had often become impossible to know whether an asteroid that popped into view was new or simply one that had been noted earlier and then lost track of. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In our latest enlightenment, the fabulous beasts are worse than improbable—they are impossible, because they violate evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How long she was gone is impossible to know. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not regular animals like Miss Bessie or the chickens, but crazy animals with problems— for some reason he liked to put his beasts into impossible fixes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He sniffed again but could not make it out; there was a cat odor in the rug, he realized, past which it was impossible to discern anything. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hunter laughed at the suggestion which came from this beautiful woman and replied that it would be impossible for him to change his mind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to deny, despite all empirical evidence to the contrary, that there wasn’t a massive cavity in my chest where my emotions used to be. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to stay focused on algebra. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to conceive of a man more like his mother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

More than 650,000 people are released from prison each year, and for many, finding a new home appears next to impossible, not just in the short term, but for the rest of their lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The rows of cells stretched on and on, infinite, impossible. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The dawn came slowly, so slowly and pausingly that it was impossible to determine when it really had dawned, as it does during the summer months. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to escape the ruthless business of sugarcane as slaves cut, pounded, boiled, and poured it into sticky barrels, bound for Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What they desired most was to be with their parents again, in their true home, but that, of course, was impossible. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I began to suspect that both legal and extra-constitutional protests would soon be impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might not have been so distressing if it had not forced me to read the tracts and leaflets myself, for they were indeed, unless one believed their message already, impossible to believe. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I can understand why Jim felt that way. Kira was very special. It was impossible not to fall in love with her.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This proved impossible, as he couldn’t stop puzzling over what Malfoy was doing that needed lookouts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I dreaded to go to bed that night I thought sleep would be impossible. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I’m taller now than when I last climbed it, it seems impossible to get to the lowest branch. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is almost impossible for me to show you what I did on these maps because they are so preposterously wrong,” he began. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

For despair there would have to be acceptance, and that was impossible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Huge stinking piles of human feces lay everywhere; it was impossible not to walk in it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The paper is pretty thin and I can’t see any marks. But it’s impossible to say for sure.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The severity of her burns and injuries makes it impossible for her to communicate or give authorities any details about the accident. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This idea, however, came to nothing: The corridors, which were packed with people on the lookout for the lunch trolley, were impossible to negotiate while wearing the Cloak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is impossible for molecules to have energies in between these acceptable values. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The entire impossible structure took the form of a seraph. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I also got lost in Ellsworth, which I am told is impossible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worrying about these things makes it impossible for Charlie to move when Gimpy says, “Go ahead, try it.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly impossible to connect the busy place in the photographs to the empty space from which I had just come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was in so much pain watching him attempt to do a simple task, which was impossible for him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is how he’d prepared himself, and why he seemed impossible to kill. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The view from Bailey’s perspective looks impossible, a bit of leg here, the curve of a shoulder there, part of her other arm underneath a foot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The most visible sign of the failed system is the astonishingly large caseloads public defenders routinely carry, making it impossible for them to provide meaningful representation to their clients. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The surveillance makes almost any suicide attempt impossible. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Choosing correct words in this place of confusion seemed impossible. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to be in Luce’s line of work without falling back on such stereotypes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been raised to handle my own business, but now that seemed almost impossible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wish I never thought of them; but desire turns my mind to them involuntarily and I am afraid for it might be impossible ever to be free of them again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a feeling that in a real fight, the bearer of that shield would be almost impossible to beat. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life, and he knows that that is impossible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His touch is unmistakable, his vision and originality impossible to truly reproduce. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As impossible as it is to think of marching an army that far on empty stomachs, it is Lee’s only hope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you tell me we have no deal unless I am able to accomplish the impossible, then we have no deal. I could fulfill either of your requests, but not both.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

While it is impossible to know exactly what was happening, it is clear that power was shifting within the palace at Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Its length made it difficult; his drunkenness made it impossible. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to reach David and get him to help feels both childish and impossible. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He tried to turn around, but he was so tightly wedged in the crowd that it was impossible. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But precise reason of breach impossible to determine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s almost impossible for a new officer to get a locker in there, so I park down here by the river and the lower locker room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think if she doesn’t get too riled and keeps a cool head when they duel, she might. But she’s...wild. And unpredictable. She needs to learn to control her feelings—especially that impossible anger.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Yet even with his help, cracking Purple seemed almost impossible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My arms were shackled before me with only three links of chain between them; my feet had to suffice with four, making perambulation impossible. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Relax, the ship has been triple-balanced. It’s impossible to fall off.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a heated debate over an impossible passage in Kiddushin I heard Danny take a sudden loud breath, as if he had been punched in the stomach. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was wrapped in one of the gray blankets and he would have been hard to see but not impossible. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, actually, it’s an impossible situation,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That is growing more difficult now and will in some foreseeable future become impossible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be hard enough to find Mace by daylight, and impossible now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to steal coffee since someone had to pour it, so he searched through his jars and came up with a few coins. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The noise from the riverside made it impossible to hear the prayers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All I can think of are the times when the twins are being impossible. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to target one without causing collateral damage in the crowds of tourists. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pushed a clump of hair out of my eyes and tried to tuck it behind my ears—Mizz Frizz, hair so impossible. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve always had trouble being happy, but now it feels impossible. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The pain in my stomach intensified, burning through the night, making it impossible to sleep. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s so impossible for me not to say yes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Growing up they had to pass it every day, and its presence made forgetting Mohammed, even momentarily, impossible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Most common were the crisp nguka caterpillars, favorite snack of Anatole’s schoolboys, which resembled small twigs and were impossible to see until I learned to sense their particular gray curve. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one had seemed like an impossible challenge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But it is impossible to separate this apprenticeship in savagery from its fully mature incarnation; it was in this kindergarten of eugenic barbarism that the Nazis learned the alphabets of their trade. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With whistles and calls and impossible boasts, the men and boys of First Congregational strolled across to Thayer’s haymeadow—mown just the day before—and marked out the lines. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him that refusing Du Barry, the Beauty Minister, clients, and most of all the queen or Sophia, feels impossible. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

To a child born in the Cairo gutter, it was an impossible dream. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way, our Texan friend being a case in point. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Confronted with the impossible, there was no option but to treat it as normal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘Tou, Julio, think small! You live small and you’ll die small! Always paying rent because you never thought big. Like most of the people in this neighborhood you think that things are impossible!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to know which emotion to follow, which one would lead me to the right decision. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Try as I did to follow a straight line, I soon discovered it was impossible. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s crash and clatter and it usually adds up to one big mash of sound and thought and picture and half the time it’s impossible to make any sense of it at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The buzz in my head and heart and body make it impossible to think of anything else. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rough waves and dense fog made it nearly impossible to navigate the dinghy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

If there weren’t, cross-cultural communication would often be impossible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But I kept going, and 1 found out that it wasn’t impossible. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to look away, to move. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His face was impossible to read, but there seemed to be a hint of victory in his eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In his hooded poncho, everything caked with mud, the boy’s face was impossible to make out. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hooper’s shirt, and the top half of his jeans, were soaking wet, and it was almost impossible to get them off at first, he was so inert and heavy. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The number of Lethifold victims is almost impossible to calculate since it leaves no clues to its presence behind it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you’re a young adult. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to talk our way out of it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Though he’s brought his sneakers with him, hoping to keep up with cross-country training, it is impossible, on these cracked, congested, chock-a-block streets, to run. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then after a long time, “It just seems so impossible.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The hills to my left made it impossible to get lost, and the terrain was smooth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met at Aulis, a place of strong winds and dangerous tides, impossible to sail from as long as the north wind blew. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that no matter how hard I dream, I am only wishing for the impossible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems impossible to escape the conclusion that employment in the shipyards and governmental establishments in the Hampton Roads area will be drastically curtailed,” commented the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It sounds as it always does, simple, impossible, absurd. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over time it became impossible to believe that any of us would ever improve. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is possibly the most wonderful national park I have ever been in, and, considering the impossible and conflicting demands put on it, it is extremely well run. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s impossible to know when I don’t know who I’m looking for. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He thrashed around, making it impossible for me to keep on my feet, but I gritted my teeth and squeezed tighter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even with the heavy curtain, it was impossible to block out the lights of the Cow’s Guts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It could be twenty feet deep or more, and impossible to escape. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And then his fingers flowed swiftly across the ivory, and the room was filled with a composition so complex, so luxuriant, it was impossible to believe only one set of hands played. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"One reason,” said Bill, "might be that it is impossible to change records while you are in the bathtub.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to tell how far beyond that the tattoo travels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our first major objective on the island had been to take Mount Suribachi, but the fierce Japanese resistance made it almost impossible. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was impossible for my child to still be alive,” the madwoman said, “and yet she is. And she was here. Recently. The impossible is possible.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Two willing skippers helps mightily, yes. Takes a bit of maneuvering, you see. Tying up against another man’s will—I’d think that impossible, Mr. Gudmundsson. I never heard of no such thing.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gaining such an injunction through what is called “prior restraint” was almost impossible in the courts, however, and Marshall advised Bobby to wait until the book was published. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke was so thick that it billowed through the roads in drifts as wide as glaciers, dimming the sunlight until it became impossible to tell whether it was morning or midday. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank God you understand. You can see how ludicrous and impossible everything has become.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inspected all the delicacies which I had never dared to do before, and I found it next to impossible to decide between them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be impossible to calm down enough to fall back asleep, not when I might wake up plummeting to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Real tears were blurring her vision, and it was impossible to see where one rope started and another ended amid the complicated array of knots and loops. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As if joining scraps of fabric to make a quilt, Molly puts them in the right sequence and stitches them together, creating a pattern that was impossible to see when each piece was separate. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at him like I can communicate the truth with my eyes, but that is impossible. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Until the insects shut up, it will be impossible to tell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But once it became clear that the regents would enforce the oath with the threat of dismissal, he decided that continuing to serve at Berkeley was impossible. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell if the shape was male or female. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The impossible task is a pointless tradition,” erupted Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I guess I just had to see for myself It was just impossible with both my legs completely straight and my left arm in a cast. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The impossible demands had been removed and I felt a vast relief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But in states organized like that of France, it is impossible to hold them with such tranquillity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that I would be able to come to Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her weight made it almost impossible to breathe. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, baby. Those places are traps. That kinda debt is impossible to get rid of. I’ll figure something out.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Zeno really did believe that motion was impossible, and his paradox was this theory's chief support. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"This is impossible," I said, craning my neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed a life of impossible romance and freedom. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Because surely he remembers that he showed me how to spot a force field, and probably it’s impossible to hear force fields, anyway. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke’s so thick, it’s still impossible to tell what the Mayor and his men are doing, have done, if they’re gone or waiting or what. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

If you were an unremarkable talent, it was almost impossible to obtain an invitation; but if you were an accomplished scientist or one of manifest promise, somehow the invitation would come to you. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on one of the brown trainer’s tables, but it was impossible for him to keep still. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When she was eighteen, she got into a bus accident that broke her spine, crushed her right leg and foot, and made it impossible for her to have babies. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now, those of you who remember your high school math will know that this is, in fact, impossible. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible in this book to set out a family-tree that included even the more important members of the more important families at the time which these tales tell of. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a meeting with Le Duc Tho, Kissinger quipped that he had accomplished the impossible: he had unified Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to determine if farmers were Viet Cong or not, and an insistence on a high body count number contributed to innocent civilian deaths. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was very nearly impossible to make myself stand and come forward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just like Rashid Uncle, born with a defect that makes it hard to speak, even impossible, except that you can’t see mine. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And it is impossible to slow down this film, to examine individual frames. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Standing with his friends in a defensive ring, surrounded by giants, then looking up at an impossible vision in the sky - Jason could very clearly picture himself fifty years in the future. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Actually, I did know these two; it was impossible to attend Hampden and not to. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d never spent more than a few hours in a city and found it impossible to defend myself from the strange noises that constantly invaded. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bartholomew wore khaki trousers pulled up high on his belly, and spoke with an American accent filled with holes, mangling words until they were impossible to understand. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

To perform in the sport he was born for, he had to be very thin, but to survive his disease, he had to maintain habits that made thinness virtually impossible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The conduct of the President,” argued the defense team, “has compromised the judiciary to the point where a fair trial is impossible, now or in the future.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The flame had a lovely light, staining the paper, curling the edges, making the slanting writing impossible to distinguish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra remembered the impossible nothingness of the throng haint rearing up over her, blotting out the suburban Flatbush streets, all those screaming mouths and the searing iciness creeping along her left arm. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The art hanging, or leaning, against the hotel walls was so odd, so weird, so impossible to understand. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She felt him to be so far away and busy that his return seemed impossible to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But when it came down to it, the guardians made it more or less impossible for any of us actually to do much without breaking rules. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s next to impossible to tell that he, his La-Z-Boy, and his very own TV are all part of an incredibly lifelike, technologically advanced sculpture. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had to be careful not to say anything obviously impossible; she had to be vague in some places and invent plausible details in others; she had to be an artist, in short. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Any food that reaches us in Kinshasa has to come over impossible roads in dilapidated trucks from the interior, so it costs too much even if you can find it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out at the horizon it was impossible to see the line where the sea and the sky met, and he felt once more as if he were in the bottom of a large blue bowl. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cart is ridiculously heavy now, and almost impossible to push—especially with a bad wheel. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All of the prejudicial media coverage would make a fair trial nearly impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But where we were, right below Suribachi, it was just plain impossible. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let me know at once that the task was an impossible one. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The Hattiesburg police had a plan: they would block every entrance to the train depot, making it impossible for blacks to purchase tickets; then they would arrest anyone trying to board without a ticket. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people’s educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What was slightly horrible was that from the stream of sound that poured out of his mouth, it was almost impossible to distinguish a single word. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her roommate, a male friend, has begun hitting on her, driving her nuts, but the rent would be impossible alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sound of her sobbing made it impossible to avoid looking. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

And just as she predicted, Briony had been outside somewhere, sulking and impossible to find. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had always thought that if the impossible were to confront me, I would be unbending in my rationality. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I know that I have an awful temper that is often impossible to control, but this woman is something special. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Since they wore no uniforms, it was impossible to tell friend from foe. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I can see that it’s impossible. Thank you so much for your help.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even with both of them trying as hard as they are, it’s impossible to feel like it’s not pulling them apart. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to say how long they had been working, but they were exhausted by the time the She Elephant fetched them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

How could I explain that even if it were impossible to defeat Alan, I wanted to try? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s almost impossible for Ashley to communicate because her body is so tight. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Was not an impossible hope betraying him to this end? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds impossible, but I think I miss Gram both ways. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In today’s world, financial constraints, gender bias, and lack of state support now make it almost impossible for Russian women to learn to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Dr. Calvin coughed and there was a sudden impossible flurry of directionless energy. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He was famous for changing identities and for charming his way in and out of impossible situations. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. There are not six million Jews in the whole world.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I notice the faint sound of two voices at a table in a far corner, tucked behind a pair of bookshelves that make them almost impossible to see from the stairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for either of them to be anything but elated—one of them on her way to France, the other flying the plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And then, as the snow piled deeper and deeper and movement became impossible and then ridiculous—people changed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to try to climb out in the dark. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of burying himself deep in the snow of the roof, but he knew that that was impossible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, she could have floated the supplies in the boat, but the crack made this impossible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dryver is the perfect Dolly, and it was impossible for Lucy with her thick, pale legs and flat hair not to look sad in comparison. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“He has to make peace with the impossible.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mother had said the memories were false, impossible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"The whole park is so volatile that it’s essentially impossible to draw conclusions from almost anything that happens." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He knew it was now impossible to add to the collection, since it would just add weight to their loads. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to look at Diego and be anything but honest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I look at her, it seems impossible that her face is also mine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could not reach the stone and, even if he could have, its sharp downward pitch would have made it impossible to climb. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Emma gave a start, which did not seem like being prepared—and her eyes, in eager gaze, said, “No, this is impossible!” but her lips were closed. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If the captain isn’t all-powerful, perhaps getting that key isn’t as impossible as I thought. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I had hoped to talk with Sabata about the Bantu Authorities, but his health made it impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where I was standing, I could see it was impossible for Old Dan to have climbed the tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so steep and overhung that it proved impossible to climb out of it again, either forwards or backwards, without leaving their ponies and their baggage behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She held her breath as its octaves rose, the tune climbing higher and higher until it reached an impossible crescendo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On such a scale an individual atom is essentially impossible to imagine, but we can of course try. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When added to the language barrier, that made the problem almost impossible to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The more he talked the more it became impossible for me to take the dollar. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

True enough, there were boys no older than he drilling there, but his crippled hand made it impossible for him to pull a trigger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy enough to jump, but impossible to rest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was impossible to feel awkward near him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On top of that, they had selected one of the most nearly impossible terrains on Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We won her freedom after establishing that she had had a tubal ligation five years prior to her arrest, which made it biologically impossible for her to conceive, let alone give birth to, a child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The idea of Voldemort lurking in Privet Drive was absurd, impossible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The problem was that she was such an expert actress it was impossible to know if it was genuine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Justice and her brother had not been close, and she had met the children only once or twice, but the call was impossible to ignore. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This makes it more or less impossible for it to get its teeth into a vast smooth curving surface such as the side of a peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t really dancing — my leg made that impossible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t she see how impossible this was? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To the Prime Minister’s dismay, however, the portrait had proved impossible to remove. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It would often, he acknowledged, be impossible to choose between competing explanations because one could not see what was actually happening within the invisible world of particles out of which our visible world was constructed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“An impossible job, near certain death, terrible odds, but should we scrape it...” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day, made it impossible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I began to admit impossible truths to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And these past seven months had taught Nate something else: that nothing was impossible. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We had selected one of those situations considered “impossible.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, sir, that’s impossible!” he blurted out “We don’t even know all the men that well.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She needs some Body Glide, but way out here, it’ll probably be impossible to find. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Every instinct in Ekon’s body told him to run, but suddenly that felt impossible. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had looked so sad and defeated, wishing for something he knew was impossible. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s not impossible,” said Gen as Valencia texted on her phone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now when I thought of ways to escape from my environment I no longer felt the inner restraint that would have made stealing impossible, and this new freedom made me lonely and afraid. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gravity-defying performances of those dancers, with their impossible leaps and lifts, and ballerinas who spun ’round tirelessly, like those on the tops of music boxes—well, that sounded well worth the trouble. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. This island is hidden, cut off from the world by strong magic. Time doesn’t even flow the same here.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to tell who was who from a short distance, except, as I continued to look out from the woods, I recognized two silhouettes in the clearing, and smiled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I feel that heartbeat of reality, the idea of saying these things out loud to anyone else, and realize how outlandish this all is—how insane, how impossible. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Raymie added this question to the list of impossible, unanswerable questions that adults seemed inclined to ask her. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s impossible to know what’s going on in his head.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell him the truth, and even if she did, he’d hate her for the lie. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one glance, they knew it would be impossible to paddle the canoes down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Besides the logistics, the very thought of it should be impossible to imagine here in America. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is not impossible to imagine priority disputes without the printing press, but in fact there are no priority disputes that we know of which predate printing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Take one trip overland here and you’ll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think my tongue has frozen and speech will be impossible, so I surprise myself by answering back in a steady voice, “Yes, I think that would save time.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this early period it may be impossible to get agreement about which is the right answer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is almost impossible to say anything that can console you at this difficult hour and remove the deep clouds of disappointment which are floating in your mental skies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she would fully come into her own, accomplishing the seemingly impossible—and astonishing the world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But in spite of that, Kingshaw saw that he would never be able to make him understand fully, that there was an impossible distance between the two of them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Obviously, that would be impossible to accomplish in a single book even if we did understand all the answers, which we don’t. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible for me, if the situation were reversed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It's impossible not to think of a bird. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the disorder of the past year, when the central command fell apart and the revolution degenerated into a bloody rivalry of leaders, it was impossible to determine any responsibility. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She tried to stay calm, but it was impossible. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered impossible things, like being cradled and held close and told over and over by her mother that she was loved. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The noise coming from the bar made it impossible to hear everything they said, but after a while Papi was angry and rolled out of bed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But chromosomes clumped together, making it impossible to get an accurate count. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Third, he refused to sign any contracts, making it impossible for most corporations or individuals to proceed with any kind of legally binding arrangement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that half an hour had passed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to see what lay beyond the two creatures. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher shared rumors of a new branch of the underground railroad said to be operating in the southern part of the state, as impossible as it sounded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim went on skating, doing tricks in sweatsocks, tricks that most people would consider impossible—making turns, stopping on a dime and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn’t hard to understand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the more they pondered it, the more impossible it seemed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sidman tried some ghost stories after the singing, but there’s something about principals that makes it impossible for them to tell ghost stories. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose had said all ghosts want something, but what was Ophie to do with the ones who wanted something impossible? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict’s breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A match between the cousins was not entirely impossible. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to see the images filling his head, but it was impossible not to recall his brother’s slackened face, not to hear Father Olufemi’s mirthless laugh. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She has been sobbing her heart out all evening, impossible to comfort her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He’d wished to inspect one of the pregnant hounds, though he knew it was impossible to predict the outcome of the litter until she gave birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Not gawping at her was impossible, so I went and sat in the tiny office. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then again, I was starting to believe that nothing was impossible for him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Just because something seems impossible, does that mean we just don't try?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With kind and patient words, the master explained that it was impossible. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I put the ribs together with their edges almost touching, and standing so that they curved outward, which made them impossible to climb. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he have left her alone to handle this impossible job? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After several months, Hitler conceded that the British air force was superior to Germany’s, making an invasion of Britain impossible at this time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t watched any Star Trek on Nowruz, of course—that would have been impossible—but the day Sohrab showed me the rooftop, Dad brought out his iPad after dinner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She saw dreary wigs, pots of rouge, empty flasks, and an unruly collection of impossible objects scattered everywhere. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the second little bird was so far from the first that Miyax knew they were out of the nest and impossible to catch. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate to get out, thousands of refugees headed to the airport and massed on the runway, making it impossible for planes to take off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can enchant a building so it’s impossible to plot on a map, can’t you?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a little stirring, a whimper, a little pink mouth opened in a yawn; so pink and moist was that mouth it seemed impossible in a coal barrel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Asta peered ahead, owl-formed, from the rearmost hoop, though the great raindrops slapping at her wide eyes made it almost impossible to see anything. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even if I did call Connor now, it would be impossible for him to unlock the laptop because I’m leaving for Mexico tomorrow. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You are joking, Lizzy. This cannot be!—engaged to Mr. Darcy! No, no, you shall not deceive me. I know it to be impossible.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But that was an impossible question for them to answer without embarrassing me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to outfox her at this game. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The underlying reason for this calculated orchestration of noncommitment was obvious: Any clear resolution of the slavery question one way or the other rendered ratification of the Constitution virtually impossible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But so far as I am aware they did not call his scenario impossible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many men in prison were able to handle anything the authorities did to them, but the thought of the state doing the same thing to their families was almost impossible to bear. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also makes community healing and collective political action next to impossible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if he urged his memory further, practiced each night as he lay on his mat...Nothing seemed impossible today. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Why would she sing “Armpit”? It was impossible. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was a cinch he hadn’t gone far, up, down, or sideways, because it would have been impossible to advance through the dark pines at night. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to trust her, even if it does mean doing the impossible to make our trip to Washington, D.C., possible. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, I couldn’t bear to watch my mother kill herself as she struggled against impossible odds to keep the family alive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem to me that they were impossible questions. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell where one serpent’s body began and another ended. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Harry tried to remember, left, right, right, left, middle fork, right, left, but it was impossible. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And once he had come over, it felt impossible not to follow him, so we did. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A quick glance in the mirror told me my hair was entirely impossible, so I pulled it back into a ponytail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They would have liked to ask why he was going to forgive his nephews, or to protest that it was impossible to pardon matricides without damaging the Round Table. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began with a giant elephant-ear leaf, like a big triangular apron flapping in the breeze, which was nearly impossible to miss. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new mayor scanned the paper and immediately told the students that the first two items were impossible for him to grant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t impossible even though it was a long way from the Snake River Valley in Idaho. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 7, 1790, Secretary of War Henry Knox told an army commander that the frontier was so extensive that it would be “altogether impossible” to defend. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All I want is to get to them, and Javier, wherever he is, and right now that feels impossible. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Goober had found the job almost impossible. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone? Buy everyone dresses? Wouldn’t that be impossible?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was impossible to be a black kid at a mostly white school and not feel the shadow of affirmative action. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. This moment, if you please. It is impossible to refuse what you ask in such a way. But what can be the matter?—Is she really not ill?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And suddenly the United States became huge beyond belief and impossible ever to cross. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible, like my body doesn’t even know what breathing is, but it knows what crying is. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Chrysaor’s golden gorgon mask snarled at him, though it was impossible to tell what his real expression might be underneath. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When a black boy is carted off to jail in such a fashion, it is almost impossible to do anything for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He started to run a hand through his beard, then frowned in irritation when the bandages made this impossible. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could not suppress a shriek at the impossible sight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to live in Congo without growing a thick skin for bugs, but even so, trudging through the jungle was almost more than I could take. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At that time, Fischer was impoverished, so it was impossible for him to fly to Germany with her. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He left me alone to unpack and get settled, a feat that would have been altogether impossible for my mother. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the segment was so narrow that it was impossible to see exactly what lay on the other side of the bridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were taking him to one of those.Escape was impossible. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And he hated that, because the pants twisted up around his legs and made it next to impossible to even bend his knees and sleep on his side, which was the most comfortable way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I try to block him out and focus on the buds on the trees, the smell of leaves, and the sounds of birds, but he’s so annoying that it’s almost impossible. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were the familiar redline laws that made it impossible for blacks to obtain mortgages or home improvement loans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the relentless din of nylon flapping in the wind, it was impossible to communicate from tent to tent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t take the impossible task back now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s entirely impossible to drive seventy-seven miles per hour on the two-lane state highway that takes us farther north, up toward the Catskills. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I see it’s impossible and I go on driving, my thoughts drifting on elsewhere. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Donovan and James Roosevelt kept demanding the impossible, and she felt they condescended to her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Someone on a bullhorn shouted something that was impossible to understand. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Booth’s injured leg made the brief walk impossible for him, so Herold went alone to find the woman. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to see in the darkness. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His tool belt seemed heavier since he’d put the cookie in there—which was impossible. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She must have, for her absence made it impossible. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the impossible happened: Mom and Dad apologized to me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible not to feel a rush as the noise fills your ears, throbs and swells, pulls you into motion, so you’re not flexing your own muscles as much as riding the roar. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You could not create such a world as you have just described. It is a dream. It is impossible.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t happened here yet, but with everything that had happened, it didn’t seem impossible. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was horrible to watch, but impossible not to. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, while staring back into his topaz eyes, not to remember the reason for the switch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The doubling continued in future divisions until further cell division became mechanically impossible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to say which face showed more hatred. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In their rush to slip away, they’d left with few supplies, and riding in the gaps between train cars meant it was impossible to scavenge for food. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is, it’s impossible to explain why I didn’t tell her about practicing with Deb. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The vegetation closed in as I neared the river, making it impossible to avoid clomping through bushes and thickets. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He has been here this very morning, on a most extraordinary errand. It is impossible to express our surprize. He came to speak to his father on a subject,—to announce an attachment—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And it was absolutely impossible for everyone to be a fighter pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I could feel sweat sprouting from my forehead, and once I begin to sweat, it’s impossible to stop. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For feet or miles, impossible to measure, I walked. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to know who all these snipers were. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After the Iowa caucuses, I’d decided to take a leave of absence from my position at the hospital, knowing that it would be impossible, really, to stay on and be effective. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I followed their directions down a long, winding dirt road full of impossible turns through a heavily wooded area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And I’m not an animal, so washing in the sink would be impossible. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Which explains why for a period of time previously considered humanly impossible, I maintain my life force without benefit of breathing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then the cart and Louisiana and Bunny were gone, clattering down the hill at an impossible speed, headed right for the pond that used to be a sinkhole. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And over time he worked himself into a choler of self-righteous indignation that was impossible to keep bottled up. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is normally very difficult to see this effect, because the light from the sun makes it impossible to observe stars that appear near to the sun in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kindly man who’d given me this instruction did not realize how impossible it was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The incursions of barbarian tribes from the north and east became more frequent, and the cost of defending the far-flung borders of the Empire became ever more impossible to maintain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for helpdesk avatars to leave their cubicles, but I found other ways to pass the time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lara decides to test out her supernatural ability, doing a long run of impossible jumps and flips across the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the Nationalist government was making any legal expression of dissent or protest impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This emperor has a habit of making the impossible happen.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It's too hard to talk about Amma, so I say, "How are we ever going to find my grandparents? Cities are so full of people. Isn't it going to be impossible?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her mind was all in a maze because of the cruelty of the command; and, indeed, it was of no use to start a task so manifestly impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped on the corner of 12th, and it was impossible for him to look at anything except that stoop. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a sudden swift movement that seems impossible considering how drunk he is, he spins out of my arms, casting me backward in slow, torturous motion. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of the cliff looked impossible to descend—nothing more than a crosshatching of tiny ledges—but they kept climbing down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He noted that it is nearly impossible to imagine anything remotely similar to mass incarceration happening to young white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s said that they could perform seemingly impossible feats. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They begged me so continuously to come to God that it was impossible for me to ignore them without wounding them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible to walk in these used heels.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not that I’m complaining, because in the middle of that whirlwind, another impossible dream of mine actually came true. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He did not know what luck could mean to the dead, just as it was impossible to know if one baptism was enough. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to swim in the freezing water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At such a rate it seems impossible that it could ever cart away a mountain, but in fact given sufficient time that is precisely what would happen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were like one of those security cameras hidden under a shaded dome; it was impossible to know where they were tracking at any given moment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If they reach town, it will be virtually impossible to find them, and the agents’ half day spent in the cactus and the searing heat will be wasted. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It is impossible for law enforcement to identify and arrest everyone who commits a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to think straight in her presence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was far too dangerous, even impossible to go back. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘The Acropolis is heavily defended, just as I described. Any approach aboveground would be impossible.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever he came to this part of town, someone clutched their pearls so hard that it was impossible not to notice it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was seemingly in an impossible bind, but he found a way out of the sugar trap. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to ignore for a few reasons. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It would not heal; it was impossible to carry him to Troy as he was; the Army could not wait. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Brahe set about proving that the impossible had in fact occurred by showing, using elementary trigonometry, that the new star could not be in the upper atmosphere but must be in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to imagine Ratwatte not making his case to Kennedy ATC—not because he is obnoxious or pushy or has an enormous ego, but because he sees the world differently. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

True invisibility was impossible, of course: this was mental magic, a kind of fiercely held modesty that could make the spell worker not invisible but simply unnoticed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds suddenly great and vital but looks impossible. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to prove that she was dead, so by the Soviet Union’s strict military regulations she couldn’t be given the award. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His voice was so persuasive, so impossible to resist. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A blizzard of ash poured down, swirling up her nose and making it almost impossible to breathe. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ship was hundreds of miles off course, heading toward an impossible challenge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stop people from saying things if they want to,” he had said, “but circumstances make it impossible for me to marry, while I consider that having a mistress is no good.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first instance, the officer appears to be describing something that is quite impossible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you see? Even fates written in the Book of Fortune can be changed. How can anything be impossible?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You can never, never give them another cause to hunt you, James. What you two want—it’s impossible. In this world, at least. Tell them, Rhoda.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They muttered stuff about how it was impossible they were so old and it just yesterday that blah blah blah. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She assumed Agha would say, “No no. That’s impossible. You already had a daughter. Of course it’s me.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were normally taken care of over the phone, but that proved impossible in this case. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I didn’t try, it was impossible not to record their roles in the drama. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad had a degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, but since he was undocumented, it was impossible for him to get hired for jobs that fit his qualifications. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I looked around quickly; finding another ride home would be pretty impossible. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Intercity travel in North Korea had once been impossible without a travel permit, which would be stamped or folded into a “citizen’s certificate,” a passport-size document modeled after the old Soviet identification card. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was his own mum talking, her voice so thick and low it was almost impossible to understand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

April 24—Professor Nemur finally agreed with Dr. Strauss and me that it will be impossible for me to write down everything if I know it’s immediately read by people at the lab. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The horizontal apparition hovered in the sky without growing larger, and though he was beginning to understand its meaning, it was, as in a dream, impossible to begin to respond or move his limbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It bristled with statistics that sounded comforting but were impossible for the average layperson to fully comprehend. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Herman Miller was told to cover the Aeron with a solid fabric and that it would be impossible to sell it to corporate clients. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Racial stigma today makes collective action extremely difficult—sometimes impossible—whereas racial stigma during Jim Crow contained the seeds of revolt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In all his dreaming—and indeed, all his despairing—he had never foreseen this: that his impossible dream might simply...ride through the gates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the calm morning, with only a faint breeze stirring the leaves, it seemed impossible that a mighty thing like this should ever topple, but here it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At sunset, after an impossible day of driving, he pulled to the roadside, kicked off his tight shoes, laid himself out in the seat, and slid the gray Homburg over his weary eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They disliked Bilbo and detested Frodo, but so magnificent was the invitation card, written in golden ink, that they had felt it was impossible to refuse. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moss was unsure who he was yelling at, since the students passed by so quickly that it was impossible to get anyone’s attention. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With all the government officials, doctors, scientists, and church people present, all seeking the truth as to whether Bobby was Jinky’s father, it seemed impossible that the exhumation was performed improperly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Five—ten—fifteen—it was impossible to count the kids that suddenly pitched forward, falling face-first into the snow, screaming and howling in pain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. How could a human know about time-stoppage? Anyway, this is no time for theorizing, Foaly. I have less than eight hours to clean up this mess. So what have you got for me?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s not quite fair,” he said, “you might ask me something that I should not be able to answer, something quite impossible.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to everyone that the pack was breaking up all around them, and it would be impossible to take the dogs in the boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Getting work that paid as well as ship breaking was impossible. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I needed them to promise I would always be protected, even though I knew it was impossible. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Something impossible to see with the naked eye. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It could be something as small as someone being named River and being an excellent swimmer, or as significant as Valley’s name being the key to their impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As hard as I tried, it was impossible to imagine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And she says, “Your handwriting is impossible,” which I happen to know is not true. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is almost impossible to imagine doing without facts, and yet there was a time when facts did not exist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I guess it would be impossible for anyone ever to realize fully how complete was my belief in Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were for the most part too long, or still connected to the root structure, which made them impossible to use. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that he would give her such a cherished treasure. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was painful to walk, but not impossible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin said their resting places were impossible to distinguish from landfill. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing by the blackboard in his office at LeConte Hall, attended by his ever-present students, Oppenheimer declared promptly, “That’s impossible,” and proceeded to demonstrate mathematically why Hahn and Strassmann must have been mistaken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible, but the deep rumbling sound was coming from the kitten. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to describe the shock of return. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that this could feel as good to Eleanor as it did to him—but she was making these faces. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“At the risk of sounding like Raymond Andrews, it’s not likely. Not impossible, but hardly likely.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was so amused by my new look that it was almost impossible not to find the humor in the situation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After a few moments, Hermione said gently, “But that’s impossible, Harry. You mean that you did magic without meaning to; you reacted instinctively.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But he’d also survived some impossible things and made his dad proud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible not to think that he had some substance on his hands, some chemical that is causing the bill to stick. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of anguish were almost impossible to endure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He found it impossible to cut the top off a boiled egg. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When clouds and snow squalls made a flight impossible, Ngawang was loaded into a basket and, under Hunt’s care, carried down the glacier to Pheriche on the backs of Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And mutants in the very first steps of embryogenesis were nearly impossible to capture alive since the embryos, with scrambled heads and tails, died instantly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was finding it almost impossible to do either, so scrambled were his powers of performance by the compulsive need for haste that invariably possessed him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It's the look of someone who's trying to process impossible information. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not impossible. With one child, I can give her what she wants,” Maria Isabel says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

British newspapers splashed his face on their covers, making it impossible for him to show himself anywhere in public. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fountains sprayed water into the air, forming impossible shapes, like flying eagles and galloping horses. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I tell you it is as impossible a conception as I have ever heard, Mr. Quinn.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Moss, it is sometimes impossible to analyze the mind of men,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But as his burns became infected, he grew feverish, lost his appetite, and found it nearly impossible to move. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The suits had clear visors in the headpiece through which the wearers could see, but the glare and distance made it impossible for Mark to make out their faces. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She wandered into town on foot, to Wimpy’s, and has gotten a job there sweeping out the aisles, which is near impossible to believe. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In pondering how this disaster could have occurred, it is imperative to remember that lucid thought is all but impossible at 29,000 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Making a break for it would have been impossible. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“For,” as Burke said, “if the judgment makes the law and not the law directs the judgment, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgment given.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They soon found that it was impossible to make their way along the crest of the Morgai, or anywhere along its higher levels, pathless as they were and scored with deep ghylls. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, without seeing it, I must say it will be a very difficult job, perhaps impossible. I couldn’t guarantee anything.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But many physicists believe that a voyage into the past is impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost impossible to resist, as far as I’m concerned. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, the FLN believed they could defeat the French militarily, Dr. Mustafa said, then realized that a pure military victory was impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I also remembered a cold, mean time when I was stepping down this same street, and it had been impossible for me to smile about anything.... The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to still my breathing, but it was impossible. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We all knew it was impossible, but desperate cons like the X-ray tech before me tried anyway. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She turned around and smiled, and Jaime Hugged her compulsively, clasping her to his chest and scratching her forehead with his chin, whose impossible beard was already clamoring for a shave. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my first shift was any indication, it is mathematically impossible for the electricity to still be on. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to notice that she was wearing those wild fishnet stockings and tippy high-heeled shoes that made her about five inches taller than normal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gravity involved action over a distance, something impossible according to the mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to lift the long stick she kept at the foot of the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he opened the camera app and tried to get pictures of Freebie, which was impossible to do in a moving car with a moving dog. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now Seven knew that impossible things were not always what they seemed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Silas said, “People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The task seemed impossible, and overwhelming, but someone would have to help them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Relief because without it we would never reach the moon, and tension because now we were committed, and turning back would be almost impossible. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U-2 achieved a high altitude that made it impossible for the jet to intercept or shoot at Powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a bad thing if it’s impossible to read. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So it is impossible what Zola says, right? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was going to be comfortable in my own skin even when some people wanted to make that impossible for me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

So much more, in fact, that he soon realized it would be impossible to cross the room without stepping on blue or black. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard enough when the sun is shining, it’s impossible in this rain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had sent her article, the one about the impossible task, to Valley, and Valley had insisted her mom could help make it better. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe in a place as complex as C Average Middle School, it was impossible to analyze every single thing that happened. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All the Jeffersonian chants about human equality were delusions that pandered to mankind’s urge to believe an impossible dream. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the pace of war planning intensified, it soon became impossible to tell where the Rad Lab ended and the bomb program began. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I’m just one more happy, shouting voice, we’re like waves in the ocean, one on top of the other, impossible to tell apart. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The woman was upset to have lost her fine husband, but she understood that it would have been impossible for her to continue to live with a lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Table manners, she mentally added to the long list of impossible tasks ahead of her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible now to venture out of the shelter of the buildings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He spent a large part of his life expiating one unfortunate deed after another and never rebelling against the almost impossible demands made upon him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It provided a chance for Forever Witchlings to close their circles by completing an impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I want a little bit of everything but I know that’s impossible, so I rush past the jars and go to the aisles that have small boxes of candy. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The reason Henrietta’s cells were so precious was because they allowed scientists to perform experiments that would have been impossible with a living human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He thought she was about to broach an impossible obstacle and he meant, of course, someone, but she didn't understand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Seven realized that they all had the strengths that might come in handy for this impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cool dread coursed through her body as Ekon’s impossible words sank in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Contrary to all the boasts of the land’s fertility, it was virtually impossible to farm anything because of the difficulty of getting water. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost impossible to keep my eyes open, my eyelids feeling heavier than a sack of potatoes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Lázaro’s heavy, impossible presence seemed to cast a shadow on her all the way from the fourth floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They didn’t understand how something impossible could become the only possible thing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At first, one triplet seemed to overlap with another—making the prospect of a simple code impossible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She placed no value on normal things so it was impossible to punish her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to find three more contented animals that night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are the young lords?” asked Wang Lung, still staring about him, so impossible was it for him to believe these things. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There could be a hundred naiads waiting in ambush, or none—it was impossible to tell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Cakes layered to impossible heights, pastries lighter than air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The jinx broke: The dust-figure exploded again, and it was impossible to make out the newcomer through the dense gray cloud it left behind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed stupid and impossible and, at the same time, true. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a few days the survivors had attempted to follow the Indians, till a heavy snow had made it impossible to go on. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, every now and then, the program stops and the TV tells you about all the great things you can buy, like a miracle cream that makes it scientifically impossible to get a pimple. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“No, it would be impossible to do accidentally.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, there were many days on the ice when getting a sight from the heavens was impossible. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But I never make that wish because it’s impossible. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there were dunes, rocks, and plants that insisted on living where survival seemed impossible. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to convince himself it wasn't impossible. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to think in grandiose terms like that, but it was impossible not to, because that night, catching my breath and looking up into the cloudless sky, everything did feel larger than life. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Without my earmuffs, it’s impossible not to be distracted by Madge’s shoelace chimes jangling every time she moves her feet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was difficult but not impossible for Mr. Solomon to pull him away. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell which side of the sky would be the next to blaze. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell who was winning. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His impossible dream had, against all probability, crossed deserts and mountains to come to Zosma and extend an unprecedented invitation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Thornton’s doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to miss the arrival of a train, or even a single person. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“This—this is impossible. D-D—” “It’s Bacchus, actually, my old friend,” said the god. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The labyrinth of tunnels would make it impossible to find the secret chamber. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s nearly impossible to teach anything in a classroom full of boys’ Noise and completely impossible to give out any sort of test. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to pity the young man, and impossible not to imagine how easily they could end up just like him—fighting and fighting until they were killed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Besides, even if I could make it to the trees, it would be impossible for Peeta to outrun them on that leg -Peeta! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to find twelve white men who would convict one of their own for murdering American Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then she smiles in the darkness and puts the memory up on a shelf in the place for old, sentimental, impossible things. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The schools with good test scores and high graduation rates would be rabidly oversubscribed, making it impossible to satisfy every student’s request. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

With her nervous horse and long skirts it was impossible for her to dismount from a sidesaddle without help. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine worse things, impossible things—her body hanging from a rope, somewhere deep in the forest where nobody goes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to lift the Midgard serpent, and yet you did, and you even loosened a coil of it when you lifted its paw from the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Something strange and improbable would happen so that the impossible couldn’t.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It might be physically impossible, but I feel Bo’s eyes on my back like a weight. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was all too easy to fudge a successful series of atomic contacts so that, while each looked almost acceptable, the whole collection was energetically impossible. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It would be next to impossible to run away in a skiff at any time of year. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also a moment, a time in his life, that seemed impossible to repeat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I experience so many different health conditions— rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure, dry mouth, pulmonary shock, muscle spasm—that it is impossible for me to even chronicle the degree of body breakdown. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell whether they were over land or sea. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would thrust the thought from her as impossible. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie put so much energy behind so many causes that it felt almost impossible to believe she cared about all of them. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

At least, that’s how it’s supposed to happen, but only if everyone stays synchronized, which seems impossible with so many poles and feet moving, and clumsy cousins like Arwin, who still gets his ankles caught. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Boyle never discussed garlic and magnets, but he did address the old belief that it was impossible to crush a diamond unless it had first been softened in goat’s blood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Food arrived in his cell, but Shin found it almost impossible to eat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They walked for nearly half an hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, until the path became almost impossible to follow because the trees were so thick. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It is almost impossible to tighten the orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis on demand, and it is equally difficult to stop it from tightening when we smile at something genuinely pleasurable. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s an impossible situation, I guess,” he replied. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had no idea how she was going to solve an impossible task, especially not with Valley and Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But it was impossible to miss what was going on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Melanie would understand how impossible it would be to invite someone else to be part of anything so private and secret as the Egypt Game. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the nazis, normal life became impossible for young people and their families as they lost their basic freedoms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But a hole in the Noise is impossible. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to study next door in the afternoon, because there’s too much going on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The reason is that it would be virtually impossible for me to pull a gun on the officer if he’s standing behind me. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Because the candles were nearly impossible to find even on the black market, she blew them out immediately after the prayers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For a horrible moment, he wondered if it contained his mother’s ashes, but that was impossible. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The whole of Gryffindor House took up the challenge enthusiastically, so that it was impossible for Harry to get to classes on time because he was surrounded by a vast, chattering crowd. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Knowing he’d be expected to glean someone before this was through made it impossible for him to disappear into himself this time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I am still so happy about just dropping trig, it is impossible to stop smiling. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And it means that sometimes things are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to school but found it impossible to study. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell unlimbered the detonator, and his eyes searched anxiously across the dusky background where the only light was robot light and it was impossible to tell a projecting boulder from a shadow. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But he loved being told that something was impossible. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to be in this high spinal country without giving thought to the first men who crossed it, the French explorers, the Lewis and Clark men. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell whether it was Mom’s driving or whether we had bought a lemon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No. There is only one thing you can be trying to imply, if I couple your statements with the fact that you present them to me, and that is impossible.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It became clear to Woundwort that it was going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to take the warren by attack down the defended runs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heat crept up Ekon’s neck as he realized it, but it was impossible to ignore. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Below it the trees were moving in impossible directions, shaking back and forth, then swaying like fainting giants, then popping out of sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Tyler Crowley was impossible, following me around, obsessed with making amends to me somehow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even if we hadn’t seen the tan SUV speeding straight for us, it would have been impossible to miss the bullet that blew through the back window and shattered it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It is literally impossible to see her as anything other than beautiful. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

According to Hickock, the “hostile atmosphere” in Garden City had made it impossible to empanel an unbiased jury, and therefore a change of venue should have been granted. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either her doctors had missed it during her last exams—which seemed impossible—or it had grown at a terrifying rate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The precautions are for those trying to get out, though to make it even as far as the Wall, from the inside, past the electronic alarm system, would be next to impossible. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should be obvious that if all that was required for the Scientific Revolution was new thinking, then it would be impossible to explain why it did not take place long before the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And now they—or the woman, at any rate—made impossible propositions. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Because of the Emergency Regulations, consultations between the accused and our lawyers had become virtually impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting Javier back feels impossible, but I’m willing to die trying. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I asked, hardly able to say it out loud because it sounded so ridiculous, so impossible. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He liked Chuck, but trying to have an intelligent conversation with him was impossible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The forces of evil generated by the hideous—and apparently impossible to uncover—underground of suspicious characters seemed remote to him this afternoon, though. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Bono’s catalogue, I saw devices ... the ones which hobble the legs ... so flight is impossible ” “I wish you had not seen that.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

How could she describe to him something that would be almost impossible to believe? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon there’d be an article about her, about being a Spare, about invoking the impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I’m not fine, and she is worried, and those terry-cloth times seem as impossible to get to as Chocolate. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now that they had left the cultivated fields behind them, it was almost impossible to find food. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Total, unequivocal sterilization is extremely difficult to achieve in practice and is almost impossible to verify afterward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But magnetic codes,” he sighed, “those are impossible.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a memory trick or a bluegreen dream: impossible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of being on the ship, where it was impossible to determine time or place—just the endless sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather made it impossible to get a sun sight, but Worsley’s best guess put Clarence and Elephant isles about thirty or forty miles north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I am not breaking up with you. That would be impossible, because we are not together.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One afternoon he had seen a man at the top of the hill, complaining that it was impossible to find a decent place to get something to drink after such a climb. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For whole bands to walk across it with backpacks full of supplies would be effectively impossible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Probably they agreed that it was impossible to love Arthur and also to deceive him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of these relative tiddlers in Earth-crossing orbits is almost certainly in the hundreds of thousands and possibly in the millions, and they are nearly impossible to track. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was always putting in things that were impossible to do really, such as giving away all your money. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought only about each step, and not the impossible task that lay before him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

World- conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If I fell, it would be hard for me to get up again—and impossible for me to lift the boy. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was impossible to believe that these people could still speak, let alone walk,” said an unidentified Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the weight and immensity of things impossible to explain to the druggist. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought to see the Old Man of the Moon was impossible. You must be very wise to know how to find him.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Minho hadn’t explained, but he had made it sound as if climbing the walls was impossible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The windows are steamy from so much body heat, and everyone is clogging the doors and hallways, making it almost impossible to get through. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only it’s nearly impossible to find the bruises. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Because most of these cases had never been investigated, it was impossible to determine precisely how many of the deaths were suspicious, let alone who might be responsible for any foul play. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes tightly and tried to remember what Voldemort had looked like, but it was impossible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, she moaned about how she tried to get you back, but ‘they’ made it impossible. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Meitner responded immediately, agreeing that the news was amazing, but adding: “We have experienced so many surprises in nuclear physics that one cannot say without hesitation about anything: ‘it’s impossible.’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the buttons were so small and impossible for me to reach, I shredded the fabric by hand, bit by gauzy bit. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Paul’s and Jim’s work to lower the per capita the way the world viewed health care; what had once seemed impossible was now possible. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He walked her to the open carriage, his good mood impossible to miss. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I’m underwater. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When it came farther into the light the comparison was impossible to avoid. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Talking to strangers about Peach seemed impossible, almost like a betrayal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Igbo soldiers and Northern soldiers can never live in the same barracks after this. It is impossible, impossible,” Colonel Madu said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her gaze was fierce and commanding - as impossible to ignore as the blue harpy feather in her hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly ordinary people could get the benefit of computing without being programmers. ft is impossible to exaggerate how important this was to the flattening of the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whereas artisans attempt only what they know to be possible, artists are always driven to attempt the impossible—or at least the improbable or unimaginable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seems impossible that the entire world could lose all sense and decency in an instant. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is physically, chemically impossible for a person who likes Daughtry to have heard of Oh Wonder. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“If you believed it impossible to be true,” said Elizabeth, colouring with astonishment and disdain, “I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. What could your ladyship propose by it?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to take decisive action against slavery in 1790, given all these considerations, confronted great, perhaps impossible, odds. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I saw an arm sticking up from the mound of rubble and the hand was twisted at an impossible angle from the wrist. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everybody knowed it would be near impossible for the Preacher to keep a story as rousing as that all to hisself. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“When I’m the Librarian, I’m going to do great things. Things that would seem impossible to anyone else.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’d only just left the Night Zoo for the first time since she and her parents had become indentured there, so it felt impossible to imagine something as far away as the Kusonga Plains. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Emmanuel Roth arrives in Geneva on 29 January 2016 to destroy the Large Hadron Collider, the site of the groundbreaking discovery of gravitons, without which time travel would be impossible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

York could see that fashioning a modus operandi for the new lab that met both men’s specifications would be practically impossible, for “they were poles apart.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t even like milk, but I always end up drinking it at Twig’s house because Hélène insists “ze bones must grow, ze bones must grow,” and it’s impossible to resist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, Marshall had wanted to go out right then to Egypt, and Melanie had had a hard time convincing him that it was impossible. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey suggested that if I quit school before getting my high school diploma I’d find it nearly impossible to return. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more I learned about him, the longer his shadow became, and the more impossible it seemed that I could ever matter the way he had. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In an instant a flood of sadness and tragedy had overtaken everyone, and I began to worry that it would be impossible for this family to leave Herbert. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was almost impossible to overlook, in fact, if only because he was a chatterbox and a prankster and he made himself conspicuous. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible...and sometimes I think it’s my fault. Like, what if I would have done something differently that day? Would she still be alive?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to feel mentally and physically exhausted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living in an institution with a myriad of regulations, it was impossible to lead a normal life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“So he’s made himself impossible to kill by murdering other people?” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But we can’t pack all our stuff without her seeing. It’s impossible.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Matters in physics have now reached such a pitch that, as Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is "almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bob lumbered along at a fast pace, even for a Titan, which made it almost impossible for Annabeth to keep up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even though I know it’s impossible, she’s acting like she’s forgotten all about what we always refer to as “the Incident.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘In every human observation,’ I explained, ‘there is a margin of error. This is because our senses are not foolproof. In fact, some people believe that one hundred per cent certainty is impossible to achieve.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, faced with this impossible choice, she came to the same conclusion. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The birches and wild grasses vibrated with impossible color after their time in the burned land, Edenic and fortifying. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No—that was impossible because of the way part of it was buried. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that he could be inside that long black box that was lying in the middle of the courtyard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also knew it would be just about impossible for her to sit on a bus with him for the three days it took to get there. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows it’s practically impossible, so why do they ask the impossible of the Jews? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A thaw between America and Russia, something most leaders would have thought impossible only months earlier, seemed on the horizon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Checking each person for a weapon would be more than impossible. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Because of poor connectivity on the island, it was impossible to access email—he’d pay for this later in catching up on correspondence—so he actually had free time. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was playing one of those impossible carnival games as I attempted to slip one of the keys, held between my toes, into the hole in the desk. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After the assembly, I tried my best to join the crowds unnoticed, but that was impossible. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The U.N. had made it easy to emigrate, difficult if not impossible to stay. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Strict guidelines were enforced, and new shoes were nearly impossible to obtain. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Staying in my compartment is impossible, so I decide to go find someone to make me tea or hot chocolate or anything. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is almost - impossible to describe this hunger that consumed us,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult, almost impossible, to bridge the age/time gap between us. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that’s the point.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“But going down is still going to be impossible.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only problem was, you'd just told me the very thing that made it impossible for me to put up the men to do so.'' An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe Frank was concentrating, though it was impossible to tell, since koi don’t have many expressions. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Shivers that were close to seizures had made it almost impossible to stay on my feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His response to our father's impossible and endless demands has, over time, become something of a mantra. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She crossed her legs in an elaborate, pretzel-like formation the boys would have thought impossible. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frear realized it would be impossible to reach his sister-in-law by a direct route, so he decided to circle back the way he came and search for another way. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jody lay in his bed and thought of the impossible world of Indians and buffaloes, a world that had ceased to be forever. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still seemed impossible half the time but it was there, a glowing speck like the last drop of the sun on the horizon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puppy squirmed and licked, making it almost impossible for her to talk. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

And I realize how impossible this all is without our own car. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was still four pounds over, which seemed impossible, seeing as for weeks he’d been living on cereal and whatever his brothers left on their plates. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When it was hot and sunny, Briny Beach was crowded with tourists and it was impossible to find a good place to lay one’s blanket. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

This is not an impossible combination—indeed, it seems to describe Sarrotti rather well—but it is certainly a puzzling one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Trap the enemy inside, cut off from supplies. Make it impossible for them to send out their hovercraft.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So I just said, “Not too bad,” and she nodded, and it was kind of impossible not watch the light shift in the highlights in her hair. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In an impossible move, Ripred tore out one’s throat with his teeth while his back feet blinded the second. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The impossible had occurred: A fifteen-year-old had managed to draw against perhaps the second or third strongest player in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it kept flip-flopping around down there, impossible to hit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he normally never heard the crowd, today it was impossible not to. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine a tinkling sound, the locket striking the glass, even though the fabric in between makes contact impossible. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handsome girl was nodding, promising these impossible things. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty paces away, he shimmered and vanished, leaving me alone with a thermos, a bottle of chewable vitamins, and five minutes to make an impossible decision. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had to swing around because, regardless of circumstances, it’s pretty much impossible to ignore a tap. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even if they had wanted to flee, escape was now all but impossible. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

While daunting, these numbers were not fiscally impossible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that this stranger could take such a sudden, intense dislike to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It's finding and getting to the physical place in which these servers reside, something impossible in the scheme of things, they can exist scattered all over the country and you would never know it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But in weather like this, it’s impossible to see them.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Why do you have to ruin everything? Always? You make it impossible to love you.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We rolled down the windows, although the February cold bit at my face and the loud wind made conversation impossible. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I believe most people will find it nearly impossible to know what I am talking about.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If it weren't for the extra fuel the Japanese gave us, we'd be trying to steady ourselves with the jib—which seems impossible. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I try to look back for Aunt Pooh, but the stampede makes it impossible. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When they stood up it was impossible to pick him out of the crowd. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The letter we received came from one of Moreau’s apprentices. And it made not just one, but two impossible demands, one for each member of VanQuish.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He would have considered this disheveled creature’s intention as mad and impossible had he not remembered the serpent in his hand, its menacing fangs and cold eyes. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would be very hard if not impossible for one man alone to resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I think I hear the chanting echoes from the church float on the breeze all the way down to the gardens, but Ethan says that is impossible. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, of course, to hide everything. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Your uncle," he said matter-of-factly, like he knew that was impossible. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And an impossible surge of heat washes through the air, like they’re inside an oven. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“He would give the Ewe people impossible jobs—like weaving baskets out of sand.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh...thank you! These are impossible to come by.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My father had tried to keep his land holy and pure, but perhaps it was impossible. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if they wanted to share the particulars of the days toil, finding someone outside of Langley who understood what they were talking about would have been well nigh impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve tried to put him back together so many times, but it’s impossible. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not—safety, for example, or money, or power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Each man thinks this is impossible and then: It might be true. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When Faye died, he knew instinctively that Kate was probably responsible, but he also knew he hadn’t much of any chance of convicting her, and a wise sheriff doesn’t butt his head against the impossible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d kept that vision of the circular room to herself for so long, now she found it impossible to talk about. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two hundred piculs he had promised for today—it would be impossible to get. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s impossible to keep all of myself totally hidden, even inside Mobius, where showing too much of yourself can get you hurt, or disappeared. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to fight with him when he cheated like that. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I add, “Maybe saying motion is impossible was his way of getting out of doing chores. Maybe it got him laid or something. But it’s totally ridiculous. Look!” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Escape had seemed unlikely with all six of Abel’s women; with only two, it seemed impossible. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If it is impossible to fight that which one does not understand, then why not seek to learn? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She finally abandoned her work, not so much because of her husband’s sarcasm, but because it seemed impossible to compete with the ancient pottery of the Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the water gleamed with silver light, and it was impossible to see underneath. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I sat there, I found it impossible to escape the sensation that something dangerous was drawing in upon to us. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of beeping monitors and the hum of a breathing treatment make it impossible to listen for footsteps. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A number of papers together made it impossible to read with interest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It now seemed impossible that Ron and Hermione would make up with each other before the holidays began, but perhaps, somehow, the break would give them time to calm down, think better of their behavior... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The fall in the hospital had either shown him the light or scrambled his brains; it was impossible to say which. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Claudia,” I said patiently, “When one is eighty-two years old, one doesn’t have to learn one new thing every day, and one knows that some things are impossible.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside I’m grateful and happy, but inside I know it’s an impossible goal. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Suppose he found it impossible to get up the bank on the other side? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I doubt we’re the Japan. It’s impossible that another planet out there doesn’t have better robots than us already.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for such a thing to have occurred; and when would it have happened? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We could embarrass them, but overthrowing them as a result of the Defiance Campaign was impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear her upstairs now and then, but it’s impossible to know what she’s up to. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He, too, like Laius, thought to make it impossible for the oracle to come true; he resolved never to see Polybus again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but that’s a good try. It says impossible. Like you just said. You told me you think it seems impossible to read as well as everyone else.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The convoy had entered a bombed village, or perhaps the suburb of a small town—the place was rubble and it was impossible to tell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

By night he was plagued by dreams and by day by the impossible route that Mr. Clyde had given him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was another thing she’d never admit, even though hiding the throbbing pain in her limbs was nearly impossible. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was ridiculous and impossible; he wasn’t getting anywhere. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to reach out and touch the old man, but that was impossible. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Escaping their teachers long enough to sneak into a girls’ bathroom, the girls’ bathroom, moreover, right next to the scene of the first attack, was going to be almost impossible. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The first time Dorothy Vaughan traveled the road between Farmville and Newport News was far from the last, though the unrelenting pace of research at Langley made anything but the shortest trips home impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this mathematical description has no intuitive meaning; it is all but impossible to visualize what these wave functions are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The Ekumen will wait till you open it, sir. It will force nothing on you. I was sent alone, and remain here alone, in order to make it impossible for you to fear me.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The science of genetics is so new that it is impossible to say...what its boundaries may be,” a botanist wrote in 1914. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was also impossible for her to take time off to accompany her son on the long trip to Oklahoma, and she worried about his going alone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the area was full of gunters, it became impossible for the Sixers to put their force field back in operation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He tried to make a sound, even a grunt, but it was impossible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the jar, almost impossible to see, floated a transparent jellyfish about the size of a fingernail. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I could submit and live the life of a genial slave, but that was impossible. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that this affair should end successfully; such things did not happen in real life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Winston had never been able to feel sure—even after this morning’s flash of the eyes it was still impossible to be sure— whether O’Brien was a ffiend or an enemy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“But Kostas, to remain neutral or independent will be impossible,” said a man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My mom thought I was just trying to get out of housework, but then I stopped playing field hockey because bending over the stick became impossible. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it would also take me through a lot of open fields—places where it would be nearly impossible to hide. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to salute foreigners as an Italian, without embarrassment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were never going to solve the impossible task this way, but it was too late to turn back now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to make that type of call from Cuba, especially now that Papa wasn’t working. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A trailer is difficult to maneuver on mountain roads, is impossible and often illegal to park, and is subject to many restrictions. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had made the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible really happen. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma insisted it was the only way, because the walls had ears and it was impossible to slip off together during the day without arousing suspicion. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas yelled out as he watched every extended arm of the monster immediately retract and clasp onto Gaily s arms and legs, making escape or rescue impossible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For a new species to arise, then, some factor must arise that makes interbreeding impossible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A chair flew over the heads of a mob, and it was impossible to make out what was happening. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to argue with him on any logical basis. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And it’s impossible to say what he couldn’t get, if he gave his mind to it.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that markets could be found for such quantities—or that so many animals existed—but so it was, incredibly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never call me. You don’t realize how agile an illegal escaped Nexus-6 is, how impossible it’ll be for you. We feel we owe you this because of—you know. What we did.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever way he turned it, all he saw was: impossible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We filed into a dark hallway lined with family photos, the faces impossible to make out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He felt a terrible desire boiling up within him, a fire impossible to quench, a thirst for Clara that would never, even on the longest and most passionate nights, be satisfied. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it should be impossible—sometimes you don’t look very hard for things you don’t believe will or can happen.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Current events were making it almost impossible for me to focus on historical ones. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Here it was impossible to know the exact depth. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had an impossible labyrinth of dark, narrow halls, in which the stink of cauliflower soup and cabbage stew reigned eternally. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He banged his baseball bat against a cabin door whenever he heard a noise, shouting at everyone to go to sleep, which made it impossible for anyone to go to sleep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Billy wasn’t sure a horse could understand everything that was said to him, but it was impossible to say how much was understood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot lose either one of them. And if they don’t get back together, August will be impossible to handle.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But it proved impossible to divorce one cycle from the other. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t walk halfway across Tartarus to be told what’s impossible by some minor goddess.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Aye, so it is,” cried her mother, “and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so, it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“No, it would be impossible to do accidentally.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And they are all so dripping with good will that it is impossible to object. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom was in law enforcement; she was explosive and impossible to please. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt an impossible happiness trying to break through inside him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to know what will set her off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma’s first resolution was to keep her father from the knowledge of what had passed,—aware of the anxiety and alarm it would occasion: but she soon felt that concealment must be impossible. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The white cashmere vest, impossible for Congo, but which I’d wanted to show off to my mom and so had carted home. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The metal beneath him had grown harder by the hour, and the fanged steel behind made it impossible to lean back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When you looked at O’Brien’s powerful shoulders and his blunt- featured face, so ugly and yet so civilized, it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

While Uncle Carlos somehow keeps impossible promises, Daddy keeps it real with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Arion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There had been more to his beauty than perfect features: He radiated an allure that would be nearly impossible to resist. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to explain how that felt, even to himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I do have an idea, and I’m pretty sure Mom knows I have an idea because it’s impossible not to notice who isn’t here tonight, Semaj and Dad. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But, given the number of people present during the autopsy—including the local lawmen, the undertaker, and Mathis, the Big Hill Trading Company owner—it seemed impossible to say who the culprit was. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They looked whole, but impossible to tell for certain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I think it would be extra challenging for you, but I don’t think it’s impossible, not with robotic arms and all that.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Janssen opens the door, staring at me as I stand in her back garden with her dirty garden stake, the one I’ve just used to do what she thought was impossible. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She closed the book and looked right at me in a way that made it impossible for me to hold her gaze. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas yelled out as he watched every extended arm of the monster immediately retract and clasp onto Gaily’s arms and legs, making escape or rescue impossible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Be it for cultural reasons or for racial ones, this dominance in distribution makes it nearly impossible for any other group to gain a foothold in the industry. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Had he watched and laughed as the foolish little girl went off on impossible missions? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Surviving in the drowned streets of the Orleans would be impossible. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Stories about her would be handed down from one generation to the next, embroidered, embellished, until it would be impossible to say which part was truth, which part was fiction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unnerving; in the darkness, he was almost impossible to see, a silhouette she did not know. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to describe the sensation of absolute peace and beauty that surrounds you. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three women knew that if too much heavy ice formed on the wings, the plane would become impossible to control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even as she said the words, Nok looked at the massive throng of people and knew that would be impossible. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed likely, the way he homed in on me like that, but with the sunglasses on, it was impossible to know. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And all the while he did not leave Kay alone, but with head down and swinging arms made it impossible for Kay to do as he was bid. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not near her as I was during class, when it was impossible to speak. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was so invested now, having given over four years of our family’s life, that it was impossible not to feel everything a bit personally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then we would have the impossible task of deciding whether one was right. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and color to fulfill both of those obligations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke of ourselves instead, of fond imaginings and impossible things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The way down the other side was just as impossible, and their hearts sank with disappointment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that they could be listening to the sermon. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Deep down he knew that it is impossible to describe the behavior of something when you don’t know what it is. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They were way, way up, and she knew that after they’d solved, or failed, the impossible task, they’d never be able to sit this close to a game again. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He, Frank, and Hazel had an impossible task to complete before then. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In 1936, air- conditioning was a rarity, found only in a few theaters and department stores, so escape was nearly impossible. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to be cute or aloof while thrashing around in abject fear of drowning. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It is quite impossible that you should persist in pursuing me like this during the very few moments of spare time I have to myself.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven seemed to be made of solid gold, which gleamed so much in the sunlight it was almost impossible to look at. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to swallow away the dryness, but her tongue stuck to the roof of her mouth and made it impossible. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I tried to ignore him, but it was impossible to ignore Freddie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other objects were positioned in unusually impossible ways. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s near impossible to hire help, what with folks running off in fear of the war.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting weights was a struggle with poor results; sets of twenty pull-ups became sets of four, on good days; and his coach pulled him out of the ring indefinitely because fighting would be impossible. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What he suddenly saw on this blank paper, it was impossible for me to tell; but something had caught his eye. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because it feels impossible now, the idea that we don’t belong together. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Getting such people interested in a numerical or scientific fact for its own sake or because it’s intriguing or beautiful is almost impossible. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to know what the future will bring. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked wild; it was like him to attempt a mad, impossible feat like this. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I should have been used to the impossible by now—just as I should have been used to white men preying on black women. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All he could do was lamely try to outrun a flying machine, an impossible task. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was near impossible to get her to go beyond that hard-edged sweetness, but that didn’t stop me from trying. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Perfect is an impossible standard,” Jenna said, tugging a strand of her blue hair. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It seems a bit fantastical to me, impossible even. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Javier slipped his hand in Moss’s and they walked away from the campus, the impossible now real. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I hope so. That dæmon...it’s impossible to tell anything from that face.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bad news is I’m turning my room into an airtight container from which escape will be impossible. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Someone asked if we were supposed to use all ten words, and she laughed and said that would be impossible. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to look at him and not want to kiss him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to miss, and I don’t like seeing myself naked. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This was enormously inconvenient, and often had the effect of making visits impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to get her to count and walk, but apparently this is impossible in Natalie-World. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That should make it impossible for the mutts to follow us, but I don’t know. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Interception and even the thought of it was impossible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shattered crockery litters the foyer—impossible to be noiseless as he enters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the Battle of White Oak Swamp, his lieutenants found it all but impossible to rouse him and lifted him, insensible, on to his horse, where he continued to slumber while shells exploded around him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna write a piece about the impossible task for the Squawking Crow. Or try to anyway,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Reynie stared pleadingly at Sticky, whose expression was impossible to read. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s getting almost impossible to hear you,’ said the young girl from her bedroom in Manhattan as she squinted through a pair of her father’s binoculars, trying to find her friend’s window. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The width and speed of the fire made it impossible for weary firemen to work in an organized or coordinated way. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to explain, but there was something calming in the habit, a comfort he found in the trifecta of it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

True or not, I was convinced that if all these people found out about Mom and Dad and who I really was, it would be impossible for me to keep my job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In general, they made it impossible for Boori Ma to sweep the stairwell that day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Caroni blushed with pleasure—it was impossible for him to resist a compliment, even when he was all mixed up as he certainly was at the moment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping now, at this moment, before I’d gotten to the most important things that needed to be explained, was impossible. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It is an impossible dare, and all of them know it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Another thing Uncle Drum said is this: The lieutenant has an impossible job. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The Truman kids respond that Volpe’s status—and theater’s high status at Truman—allow them to do things that might be impossible elsewhere. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Neel strained to hear the sound of a soft mew of a cub, but the chatter of the rhesus monkeys and Headmaster’s loud panting made it impossible to hear anything else. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A universe of fury seemed to spin inside Mark, an impossible feeling that he knew couldn’t last, couldn’t be contained. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible for him to focus on anything else for too long when the computer was on, which it always was. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A common practice was to have jockeys’ room valets open soda cans by puncturing the top with an ice pick, making it impossible to drink more than a few drops at a time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be impossible to overstate the significance of race in defining the basic structure of American society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to believe that if he really had carried out the famous experiment himself there would be no mention of this triumph anywhere in his writings. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, in practical terms, it was impossible not to turn away from an inmate occasionally—as Rufino’s shiner demonstrated. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, being in this house, not to realize that Charlie had never gotten over my mom. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Antinous’s words rang in his ears - about the giants in Athens, the impossible trip facing the Argo II, the mysterious hunter Gaia had sent to intercept the Athena Parthenos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And I lay not in Osh’s bed but on the floor alongside my own, unhappy that the rain on the roof, rapping its wet fingers on the window-panes, made it impossible to hear him breathing. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema learned that she can disagree with my mother but it's nearly impossible to change her mind, especially when it comes to me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Which was, of course, nearly impossible once they were assigned the same tasks in the afternoon, day after day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell where the shreds of his saturated coveralls ended and the ragged flesh began. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But sober judgment told him that that was impossible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time we’ve talked about his “motion is impossible” theory, I do the same thing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

These brief Purple messages, following no known pattern, were an almost impossible riddle. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I needed only forty more dollars to pay for my family’s passage, minus what Mr. Stieglitz had just given me, but even that felt impossible. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pilots flying new planes could provide swift transport over otherwise impossible distances and heights, perform glamorous stunts and dramatic rescues, explore new territory...and, of course, embark on dangerous acts of war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A demonstration was impossible of course, but if they made it off the plantation they would depend on this rare gift. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Without hesitation, he dropped the lantern and seized her wrists, slamming her hands together, making it impossible for her to use her power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I love how the sky stays light right into evening, how Lake Michigan gets busy with sailboats and the heat ratchets up to the point that it’s almost impossible to recall the struggles of winter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Dancing! On tippy-toe? It’s impossible to do that!” my friend exclaimed. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the game was much, much harder, the next thing to impossible... but just when she was near the point of screaming with frustration, it all became much easier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In truth, I don’t want to watch when she closes her eyes and summons a small shot of the splendor from the ground just as I did, but I find it impossible to look away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But as for loving this insensitive person this mocking creature—it’s becoming more and more impossible every day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Poppet said nothing is impossible, and he finds he is beginning to agree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I understood so little that it was impossible to know what a reasonable mistake might be. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

For the past two years this DNA was said to have the strange property of lacking cytosine, a feature obviously impossible for our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s something I’ve been wanting to talk to you lot about. It’s just that back there, at the Cottages, it’s impossible. Everyone always listening in.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three start spending time together right away, and after just a few days Theo finds it impossible to be just friends with Jo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had thought about trying some of the positions out with Chinyere but never did: there was something about the methodical silence of her night visits that made any novelty impossible. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unmedicated sleep was impossible, a fairy tale, some remote childhood dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But if it senses uncertainty or deception, it will be near impossible to get it to do anything. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I held it in for as long as I could, but when I reached the street it was impossible. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I realized she didn't understand how impossible this was for me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But the greatest complaint was always that they could not leave this apartment, which was too big for their present means, since it was impossible to imagine how Gregor might be moved. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only know that in my short lifetime I have done things which would have been considered clearly impossible in the year of my birth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible for me to replace it in the month before Lori graduated. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Zsuzsa recalled: “I tried to convince him in the beginning about the realities, telling him the facts, but soon I realized that it was impossible to convince him, and I tried to change the topic.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after one last doctor’s appointment full of heartrending phrases—low-motility sperm; inhospitable womb; conception likely impossible—they’d decided to adopt. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I wish you could be spared the formality and the publicity of an inquest,” said Colonel Julyan, “but I’m afraid that’s quite impossible.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone seems to know everyone else, embroiled in conversations that are impossible to join. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think I would have found it impossible to be friends with a purely naked boy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tribesmen were also wary of consulting them, because it would be impossible to be effective in battle if one knew that he was fated to die. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wriggled her way into the living room, cup held aloft, but it was impossible to see anyone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had tried, but it was just impossible, until one day when I was very hungry and thirsty. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He performed alchemy experiments in the kitchen, filling the house with fetid smoke and ruining pots and pans with solid substances that stuck to their bottoms and were impossible to remove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of that spelling is next to impossible.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had been promoted to the position of abbot of the monastery in Brno, and his administrative responsibilities were now making it impossible for him to continue any plant studies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The combination seems impossible, but the poems are here to prove it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to move so much as a centimeter in any direction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The fruity body splash she had on made it impossible to focus. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The thought seemed as impossible as leaving this gated estate behind me for good. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The heat shimmer and the distance made it impossible to see any details, but the other balloon was larger, and flying higher. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each month of silence that passed between them, she felt the silence itself calcify, and become a hard and hulking statue, impossible to defeat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It would have been an even more incongruous possession than the glass paperweight, and impossible to carry home, unless it were taken out of its frame. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to compete with anyone in a cheerleading outfit, especially at our school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I guess with three thousand kids spread out over a square mile, it was impossible to watch everyone all the time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Logically, there has to be a point when this is physically impossible, but Coach West doesn’t seem to think so. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I need new pants, but it’s impossible to buy them at a thrift store since I can’t try them on. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, taste is conditioned solely by culture, which is so varied that it is impossible to reduce art to any one set of precepts. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be harder for Papi to get back, but not impossible. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In Reggie’s case, it’s impossible to conclusively say he was addicted to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stand with the help of the armrest, then bushwhack through an impossible thicket of Jude’s blond hair to a bathroom, where I splash cold water on my face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That is barely two years ago—and now here stands Territorial Kantorek, the spell quite broken, with bent knees, arms like pothooks, unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig-out—an impossible soldier. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, there is a large body of what might be termed “nontechnology,” impossible to measure in terms of its capacity to alter either the natural course of disease or its eventual outcome. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That made it nearly impossible to carefully check their backgrounds, to make sure they could be trusted with American secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quentin,” she said to me, and more than anything else, I found it impossible that she knew my name. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think anything’s impossible for you,” she said as she continued her display. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It would have been near impossible to maintain formality under a small town’s invasions of privacy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his irresponsible behavior was almost impossible to bear. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And whom I still feel reluctant to tell you about, although it is impossible to deny his existence now. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why go to the trouble of making it psychologically impossible for Deltas to like flowers? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to say no, so I said yes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A quixotic hero dreams the impossible dream. realtor. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How the incoming president would have resolved this impasse if Jefferson had agreed to resume the collaboration is impossible to know. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that there were Germans there. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So on Maribel’s first day of school in the United States, Arturo and I woke up early, filled with impossible expectation, and roused Maribel, watching her push her hair off her face. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The doomed prince of Denmark is a dude faced with an impossible choice. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to stay in a shell with Heqet around, and it was impossible to feel altogether gloomy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible, unless the boy had collapsed face-first into a cow’s spraying jugular. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By traditional architectural standards the challenge seemed an impossible one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It is hard now to leave the country but in no way impossible.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would probably be impossible ever to make him understand or believe that Frodo had saved his life in the only way he could. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The rains came then, pouring down in strong sheets that made it impossible to see the garages across the yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

One word from the Queen and their departure would have been forever impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the kind of visit space that movies and television made out to be the norm, with partitions, windows, and telephone receivers, and with both parties anguished because touching was impossible. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. It’s just...Athena said that creating this braided structure would be impossible for any weaver, even her. So if you don’t think you can—” “Athena said that?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If war damage made it impossible for a city's inhabitants to keep up, they would be in trouble; island dwellers who wreck their homes have no place to move. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to go anywhere in this town. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Words were impossible so I said nothing, only pointing at the restaurant door where I’d seen the boy disappear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible not to hear the hope in her voice. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Reader, it must seem impossible that our robot could have changed so much. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

How right — how incredibly, utterly right — and how impossible! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We passed what I thought must have been a black wrought iron fence, but it was almost impossible to see, trapped as it was beneath what looked to be raggedy, patchwork blanket. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid it’s impossible, Jo. Aunt says Amy, decidedly, and it is not for us to dictate when she offers such a favor.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the bad acoustics of the gym, it was impossible to be certain the Burnt Mill Creek High School Pioneers weren’t actually chanting Altvatter! 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Plus Bess with her obsessive cleaning is impossible to be around. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“No. It would be impossible. The cutlass, the smock. Someone would be injured. I came here to speak, not dance. I don’t dance. I never dance. I have never danced in my life.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was impossible, but nothing looked simple, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To have misunderstood it on this scale—five versus six million—seemed impossible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At age twenty-four, after working with Akhi for only a year, I had done what most people would assume was impossible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For outsiders, it was the sheer size of the exposition that made it seem such an impossible challenge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The safer route, or at least the not impossible route, was around the southern coast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do—and it wasn’t to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He knows it’s impossible for me to keep my mouth shut.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It sounded impossible, but she could feel his presence as surely as if he stood right next to her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was fogged with condensation and impossible to see through, and Serafina could hear no voices, either. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as long as we in the West place on color the value that we do, we make it impossible for the great unwashed to consolidate themselves according to any other principle. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The actual landing had been the one part of the mission that had been impossible to rehearse prior to the actual moment—and the most dangerous. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d always known it would be impossible to find Blink. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

People with autism find it difficult, if not impossible, to do all of the things that I've been describing so far as natural and automatic human processes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He said it was impossible for black people to have really straight hair anyway; he had seen Asian women with straight hair all the way down to their feet. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It is impossible not to feel a shiver when our feet, leave the gravel path and sink into the dead grass in the field. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if a strong Union force was on a hill to the south . . . but without Longstreet’s Corps a general assault was impossible. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I tape it again and again, so it’ll be virtually impossible to open. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, he knew that was impossible . . . time travel wasn’t real; it only existed in books and movies. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sip, he says, and don’t waste strength moving around because it’s impossible to predict how much longer we will befloating. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She had hoped to work from home, but that was impossible when her mother was so ill. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Who else would have worked so hard at an impossible project like the doomed boat? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And it was then that the last of the wax ran molten over Tristran's hand, and the burning became impossible for him to bear, and the last of the flame burned out forever. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers the Cursed Toads had been meant to find for their impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Impossible, Mr. Bennet, impossible, when I am not acquainted with him myself; how can you be so teasing?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

There are other fantasies involving magic powers, impossible wealth, and the ability to sing and dance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to turn this leaf of my life, without putting Bentley Drummle’s name upon it; or I would, very gladly. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I tried so hard not to laugh, but it was impossible. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The impossible debt of paying back the vuvv for fake fifties romance—thousands. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not know how far his power went and he did not want to promise this beloved girl something impossible. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe I do have impossible hair, and maybe that’s a bad thing, but I never thought about it until right this very minute. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The adventures he had always dreamed of, also the serenity and the security, were already a part of the past, impossible fantasies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be impossible to imagine a more revolting exhibition,” said The Times of London. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window at the passing snowbanks and tried to keep from thinking about the snowball day, but that was impossible. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

At first it seemed impossible to hold an axe in his left hand, steady it with his bad right. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would not only be annoying, but pretty much impossible and sometimes dangerous, since Loretta’s pedestrian route is on back trails and down small, narrow highways. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to lie comfortably on the pillow. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hours passed--it was impossible to tell if it was day or night. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led an army so great that it seemed impossible for the little band of heroes either to conquer it or to escape, but Medea saved them again, this time by a horrible deed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to breathe, and impossible to see: the dragonfly was dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, I often forget my role and find it impossible to curb my anger when they’re unfair, so that they spend the next month saying I’m the most impertinent girl in the world. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Waller had specifically requested Agriculture officials not to spray her property, because it would be impossible to avoid the pastures in spraying the woodlands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Almost at once his theories of relativity developed a reputation for being impossible for an ordinary person to grasp. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe, he said, it was the impossible part. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I stare into a giant stainless-steel refrigerator to find ingredients, but it’s impossible to focus. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic—who forgot the candles, who broke the wineglasses, who lost the ring. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to tell you how happy your last letter made us, for the news was so good we couldn’t help laughing and crying over it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was near about impossible to make out what was going on, because people all around us were singing, dancing, banging their plates, waving their arms back and forth like trees in a hurricane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to tell whether Osiander’s preface soothed any ruffled feathers at the Vatican, but the evidence suggests that there were no ruffled feathers there to soothe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ollie brought me here under a false pretense, and I've finally learned a piece of information that could be useful, but he's told me help is impossible without really explaining why. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We were trying to control our giggles, but it was impossible. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Luke tried to burrow back down into the anger, the anxiety, but it was impossible with Annie leaning on top of him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Claire had been silent, appearing without warning from the swirling gray mist, and his maimed feet made it impossible for him to jump and run. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was an impossible woman, but a sight better than having Jean Louise permanently home and miserable. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her wordlessly for an impossible amount of time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that only two nights ago, Deen had been sitting in that same spot, with his knee touching Jinny’s. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I rock back and forth on my chair like a baby, craving so many impossible things: justice, forgiveness, redemption. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was that dream as impossible as pretending the trash dump was a treasure trove? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That was the way forward—but it was so far down, an impossible jump. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible that an ordinary, bright day should be proceeding outside our house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that was impossible if I was going to have any chance to get away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘You guys have to find Nike and figure out how to subdue her . . . whatever Juno meant by that. I still don’t understand how you defeat a goddess who controls victory. Seems impossible.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her first day of trying to keep Mrs. Caruthers happy, a task that Ophie now understood to be impossible, was finally at an end. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Um, just to talk about the impossible task. How it was a big responsibility and blah, blah.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to look out the window and not see it. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

There were times when she went cold and silent and he felt her distance from him so completely that it seemed impossible to reach her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Across from that on the other side stood large glass doors, although the lighting made it impossible to see what was on the other side. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to look at him and not know the world was going to end and drag us to hell with it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z