Sample sentences for IMPREGNABLE

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Definition

able to withstand attack

an impregnable argument

an impregnable fortress

impregnable = able to withstand attack

impregnable self-confidence
The impregnable strength of him—earthing his feet near her shoulders.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved

impregnable = strong (able to withstand attack)

She's impregnable herself, and with the element of time working for her she eventually gets inside everyone.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

impregnable = able to withstand attack

It was as if they did not trust the impregnability of their own position.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
The Germans fortified it and made it impregnable.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Impregnable Malta surrenders without a shot; his most reckless schemes are crowned with success.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
But there was another castle nearby, vastly larger and impregnable.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Our harvest has been plentiful, the mountains protect us, and the Eyrie is impregnable.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
He has evidently a hiding-place in his house that he fancies to be pretty impregnable.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
The building's impregnable.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Mabel exclaimed, for the idea that the blockhouse would be impregnable with such a garrison at once crossed her mind.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
That influence, in its last analysis, was simply the power of money: Bertha Dorset's social credit was based on an impregnable bank-account.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
Of being locked into a physically impregnable cocoon.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Her busyness gave Missie an air of abandon, quite impregnable.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Sheltered by two great oceans, America seemed impregnable.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Chapter 25 Jurgis got up, wild with rage, but the door was shut and the great castle was dark and impregnable.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
It still seemed to me that he took a stance all too conveniently impregnable.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
He needed information; he needed to find a weak link in the wizard's seemingly impregnable armor.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard

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