How to Use impoundment in a Sentence

impoundment

noun
  • Under the law, the move was known as an impoundment.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Under the law, the move was known as an impoundment.
    — Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But Hess said the man couldn't have known how far to move it to avoid impoundment.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • These ponds, or impoundments, can be hundreds of acres in size and hold millions of tons of coal ash.
    — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Finer waste is held in a watery impoundment out of sight in this photo.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • How would the Supreme Court rule on an impoundment challenge?
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Some sites feature massive piles or impoundments of mine waste known as tailings.
    — Matthew Brown, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Adult largemouth bass in a 17-acre impoundment were fished for a summer and marked each time they were caught.
    — Hal Schramm, Outdoor Life, 12 Sep. 2020
  • There have also been major spills into rivers when earthen dams that hold back the impoundments have failed.
    — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The impoundment, which will be a secure site monitored around the clock, will not be open to the public.
    — David Anderson, The Aegis, 12 June 2017
  • There's a law aimed at stopping impoundment Congress has the power of the purse.
    — Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
  • One exception would be when looking for a bend in the upper end of a creek arm on an older impoundment.
    — Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 9 June 2020
  • The dogs were released back into his care after the court found issues with the city's impoundment order.
    — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2023
  • This was impoundment in action, the usurpation of the power of the purse from Congress.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Nixon’s path to controlling Congress was through the impoundment process.
    — David Herzig, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Smallmouth can be found in everything from small creeks to mighty rivers, to neighborhood lakes, to vast impoundments.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
  • Grayish colored waste and a blue impoundment pond of the active waste site are clearly visible.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • The costs of impoundment and any outstanding fines must be paid before getting the vehicle back.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The city has two upstream impoundments, both built during the 1930s as public works projects.
    — Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Laschet said that of the 13 locations where the waterdog was known to reside, two are now in impoundments.
    — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Gun owners who fail to comply will be subject to firearm impoundment and fines, according to the ordinance.
    — Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The purpose of the meeting was to brief the staffers on the center’s latest policy fight—an attempt to build the case for the use of impoundment.
    — Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The purpose of the meeting was to brief the staffers on the center’s latest policy fight — an attempt to build the case for the use of impoundment.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • When a dike burst on a six-story tall impoundment in Kingston in 2008, the problem could no longer be ignored.
    — Travis Loller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In addition to the fill, there are five closed coal ash impoundments spanning 11 acres on the plant’s southwest corner, the statement said.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • Utility owners historically have buried the ash in impoundments or ponds.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The White House pushed back on the accusation of impoundment, citing that the funds were only paused pending review.
    — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The project plans to turn a 1,000 acre-swath of neighboring land into an above ground reservoir called the C-11 impoundment area.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • Floating docks are often suspended over depths of 20 to 40 feet in this vertical impoundment, and that kind of depth can hold striped bass as well as spots and largemouths.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 18 July 2021
  • But in their century-plus of existence, the lake-like impoundments created by the dams have become beloved fixtures of nearby communities.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2026

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