How to Use impossibly in a Sentence

impossibly

adverb
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  • Even in the best-case scenarios, a year in the life of a child can seem impossibly long.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Michael Calore: Hit us with the impossibly long name again.
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Those bands seemed so huge and impossibly out of reach.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
  • If that sounds like a lofty goal -- impossibly so, even -- then good.
    — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
  • But leave it to Kaia Gerber to kick off the evening's red carpet with a look to set the bar impossibly high—and the lengths even longer.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 2 May 2022
  • The book was published in 1984, the Orwellian year that had once seemed so impossibly far off.
    — Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Her dress, topped with a corset, showed off an impossibly tiny waist.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The result is an impossibly thin sheet of maize that inherits all of the stone’s ridges and crevices.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022
  • In January of 2018, when Houghton closed, many in the industry mourned the loss of the impossibly cool brand.
    — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Kids, pets, impossibly messy or neat rooms, and other clues emerge in the margins of our screens.
    — Kim Scott, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2020
  • On April 17, his head began to ache and his chest felt impossibly tight.
    — Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The dish to order: An impossibly crispy pork schnitzel, topped with golden beets and smoked roe.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2024
  • On the other side, cloud-like Dall sheep climbed impossibly steep, unnamed cliffs, bound for the meringue-like snow at their peaks.
    — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Your Grace, you, your favorite spoon, and your impossibly smoky voice will be missed.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The jeans were impossibly low-slung and covered with prints of flowers.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The image slapped me across the face: a truck in the pouring rain, leaning impossibly to the right on a rickety rope bridge ready for collapse.
    — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The song and its video are very cute, and I was thrilled to hear Carey harmonize with Grande on their impossibly high whistle notes at the end.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Matt James comes in and gives … an impossibly long opening night speech.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Slot canyons are rife with impossibly tidy life lessons.
    — Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The resort sits on the Caribbean, which in the sunlight is impossibly blue and crystal clear.
    — Rebecca Holland, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The middle is impossibly airy, a light, puffy cushion for all the toppings.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
  • To make a long story impossibly brief: Mort was born in Brooklyn, in 1931.
    — Sofia Warren, The New Yorker, 8 July 2024
  • Almost impossibly, the forecast was even worse for parts of Wyoming.
    — Margaret Stafford, Josh Funk and Juan Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Turner looked impossibly cool in a matching brown leather set and black knee-high boots.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The Pentagon, where Dwayne worked, had impossibly been hit by a plane.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Like clockwork, every 28 seconds John steps up to the bar, does 5 impossibly fast and smooth pull-ups, and then drops back down.
    — Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The chocolate pot de crème took a narrow first place thanks to its silky, impossibly creamy nature.
    — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2020
  • All of the hotel’s villas, which were designed by two Frank Lloyd Wright apprentices, make the most of the coastal, cliffside locale with private decks that lead you straight into impossibly blue waters.
    — Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to their sourdough loaves, Spread does an impossibly good sourdough cinnamon rolls.
    — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025

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