How to Use insurmountable in a Sentence

insurmountable

adjective
  • They were faced with several insurmountable obstacles.
  • But by then, the Twins were in a hole that would prove to be insurmountable.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 21 June 2025
  • Please read on for the insurmountable proof of my claim.
    — Erika Sjule, New Yorker, 8 July 2025
  • Over the past few years, the world has carried an insurmountable amount of grief.
    — Ebony Joseph, Good Housekeeping, 17 Dec. 2022
  • After Charlestown closed the gap against the Jets to 14-13 in the first set, East Boston went on a run that proved to be insurmountable.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Should that be the case, a multi-score cushion for the Ducks could prove insurmountable.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In some ways—maybe most ways—Christine and the Queens seems like an insurmountable force.
    — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2020
  • By then, the deficit was 14-0—far from insurmountable, but still a steep climb for a team that has struggled to score in the second half of games.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The deficit seemed insurmountable at 6-3 after Lawrence North hit its third home run in the top of the fifth off the bat of Kaci Kirkpatrick to lead off the inning.
    — Rich Torres, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
  • The clock strikes noon, and the thought of turning on the stove (or even hitting the buttons on the microwave) feels like an insurmountable chore.
    — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The first clear and insurmountable fact is that the U.S. armed forces already are the global top dog by a huge margin.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2020
  • But the plot requires that the insurmountable be mounted, of course.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 June 2020
  • With one more win, the Bucs can complete the feel-good story in a year where the hindrances seemed insurmountable.
    — J.j. Bailey, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • His absence has left a void in my life that feels insurmountable at the moment.
    — Variety, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Or an insurmountable Chinese Wall that would destroy the X-1–and me with it?
    — Chuck Yeager, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
  • And all of a sudden, that once not-so-insurmountable lead soon became a blowout.
    — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The Hawks have the tiebreaker over the Celtics and will maintain it, but one game certainly isn’t insurmountable.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
  • Beal scored all 10 of her points in the first half, when South Carolina opened an insurmountable 10-point lead over the Bruins.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
  • More: Is Elon Musk's fight for a new third party 'an insurmountable thing'?
    — Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 29 July 2025
  • But a 12-0 Knights run, fueled by a pair of 3-pointers by Tyler Ammann — his first points of the game — proved insurmountable.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But what about the feeling that our problems are vast and insurmountable?
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The Hoosiers were outclassed to start the game, digging itself into what proved to be an insurmountable deficit.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2022
  • But there was an insurmountable problem: the school day started at 9 a.m. or so, and my husband and I both had to be at work by then.
    — The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Or the big second half at Arizona that led to a nearly insurmountable lead late.
    — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Williams had the next two scores on rushes in the third quarter, making the Chiefs’ lead almost insurmountable.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • In May, such an early deficit was often insurmountable for the Red Sox.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
  • If the desire to know is insurmountable, so too are the consequences.
    — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
  • With the offense potentially stalled on the Dolphins side, the Bills may get out to an early, insurmountable lead and choose to pump the brakes.
    — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The New York Knicks recently showed that that was not an insurmountable lead.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
  • At first glance, those numbers are insurmountable for a state that just closed the fiscal year with a $2.6 billion surplus equal to 10% of its entire General Fund.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2025

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