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Definition of impasse:

  • (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
  • (noun) a street with only one way in or out

Sentence Examples:

The impasse is clear.

It was a true impasse.

An impasse seemed to have been reached.

Everywhere the same end: an impasse.

Again there was the same impasse.

Apparently he had reached an impasse.

Here was an impasse for sure.

The affair had reached an impasse.

We are thus in a hopeless impasse.

The Impasse is blocked with people.

What about the federal patronage impasse?

She had come to an impasse already.

Reform had come to an apparent impasse.

We seem confronted with a complete impasse.

It had clearly become a hopeless impasse.

In fact, he had come to an impasse.

The soul was delivered from an impasse.

There is no logical clue to the impasse.

A ridiculous little impasse it seemed for him.

We should soon land in a pretty impasse.

As you have put it, it is an impasse.

Who called this ghastly impasse a choice!

Such is the impasse before which we stand.

To the impasse which you have now reached.

An impasse had been reached, it was clear.

No one sees any way out of this impasse.

In every case I have started with an impasse.

I asked when I had explained the impasse.

We seemed to have reached a bit of an impasse.

He jumped to another angle to escape the impasse.

It seemed the only way out of the impasse.

There seemed no way out of this terrible impasse.

Was ever a respectable gentleman in such an impasse?

Then it was that Elliott discovered the impasse.

For the moment he was at a mental impasse.

Naturally I turned to Waller in this seeming impasse.

He was in an impasse with no prospect of delivery.

He thought he saw a way out of this impasse.

That was her way of getting over this impasse.

What was the way out of the dangerous impasse?

The impasse looked hopeless when I reached the scene.

That seemed to bring the conversation to a natural impasse.

At this juncture there threatened to be rather an impasse.

There are only two logical alternatives to such an impasse.

An impasse; and I don't know which way to turn.

Hume may thus be said to have brought things to an impasse.

I have just heard the gate of the Impasse being shut.

In this impasse of arrested life he stood sick and useless.

"Well," said the Leader at last, "it's an impasse, isn't it."

For a moment it seemed that they had come to an impasse.

"An impasse," he smiled, "what are you going to do about it?"

Increasingly she reproached herself for the impasse in Ronnie's career.

An impasse was created, and all the enemies of freedom rejoiced.

By the middle of September affairs had again reached an impasse.

We followed Roland faithfully enough until he brought us into this impasse.

It was an impasse, and the silence which followed emphasized it.

He asked them, at the seventh or eighth impasse in the bargaining.

It was a rocky, boulder-heaped ruin with that stream for an impasse.

She had suddenly seen a clear way through a very difficult impasse.

It was an impasse, and the secretary, recalled to himself, blushed deeply.

He held his hands out, palms upward, as though at an impossible impasse.

An impasse may be reached where it seems no progress can be made.

It was our first impasse in the course of six years of double harness.

He was in such an impasse that he cared little what became of himself.

Will the first gray light of morning find us still in this impasse?

Sally knows from her mother's tone of voice that they are approaching an impasse.

It therefore forms an impasse, or a pocket for carriages, and is little used.

It would have pulled the leaders of north and south out of their impasse.

The main streets branch out into thousands of impasses each ending in a locked door.

Perls called such experiences impasses, and they form blocks to a person's growth.

The land agent was shrewd, and knew when he had come to an impasse.

And mere abuse of those who point out the impasse cannot change the facts.

They had talked over the predicament before, and always came to the same impasse.

The discussion had let us into an impasse; there was nothing more to be said.

He set various electronic engineers to work on the impasse and a solution was found.

There was a pause while each of the others looked the impasse in the face.

Kitty, at a mental impasse, could only stare into the night beyond the window.

"It seems to me that we have arrived at what is called an impasse in French."

The impasse was so horrible that she could not face it even in her thoughts.

The inspector had watched the house for about a fortnight, from outside, in the Impasse.

Wiser heads than mine have already arrived at a hopeless impasse of opinion on that point.

It seemed for a moment as if we had reached an impasse, then came an illuminating thought.

He got round the impasse by kicking out the foot rest of the third chair.

Then as though they led them to the same impasse, their eyes lifted simultaneously; met.

However, I won the toss, and to that fact the subsequent impasse may be attributed.

We are in an impasse, it would appear; the analysis of the given fact is found impossible.

Poor K., who had reasoned all this out for himself and had come to the same impasse!

For two hundred yards the tunnel led forward and brought him up sharply at an impasse.

To her the world was young; of the bitter impasse of middle age she knew no hint.

Ass that he had been not to realize the impasse to which their talk was leading them!