Sample Sentences for
surmount
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    And yet it's good that we have to surmount them, since it makes the end that much more beautiful.†  (source)
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    I repeated Chairman Mao's quotation, "Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory."†  (source)
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    To the dismay of the Japanese climbers, however, the ladder was falling apart and had become partially detached from the rock, so ninety minutes of strenuous climbing were required to surmount this 20-foot cliff.†  (source)
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    The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.†  (source)
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    Yes, that whopping two-year gap really is insurmountable, isn't it?  (source)
    insurmountable = not able to be overcome
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insurmountable means not and reverses the meaning of surmountable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.†  (source)
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    Mysticism isn't difficult when you survive each second by surmounting open hostility.†  (source)
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    The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king's hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me.†  (source)
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    The touch of her hand had filled him with ecstasy; he had desired to enter into her soul so that he could share every thought with her and every feeling; he had suffered acutely because, when silence had fallen between them, a remark of hers showed how far their thoughts had travelled apart, and he had rebelled against the unsurmountable wall which seemed to divide every personality from every other.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsurmountable means not and reverses the meaning of surmountable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The hole where Airlock 1 used to be is huge, but surmountable.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    At eleven o'clock, I looked up to see a pair of pale and shapely legs supporting a tumult of pink marabou surmounted by a picture hat.†  (source)
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    Besides, it isn't in my nature to go down without a fight, even when things seem insurmountable.†  (source)
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    She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away with a degree of ill-humor which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her.†  (source)
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