How to Use impracticable in a Sentence

impracticable

adjective
  • The last thing a comedian wants is to sue or threaten a fan, and such action is often impracticable.
    — Mitra Ahouraian, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • But schemes to mine and shuttle raw materials seem impracticable to many experts.
    — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Teachers’ impracticable demands are leaving students, even at charter schools, stuck at home.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The building is in such a state of obsolescence that remodeling would be impracticable, the owners said.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • What was previously ‘impracticable’ or ‘too costly’ was made possible in a matter of weeks.
    — Caroline Casey, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Steer clear of impracticable, luxurious purchases that might tempt you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
  • While many Americans agree that this is one of our country’s greatest crises, solutions can seem overwhelming and impracticable.
    — Daniel S. Loeb, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
  • But with Yee as the agent, communicating such an assurance was impracticable.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Judges have opted for that approach when concluding that limiting a ruling only to their specific district would be impracticable.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • This defense is when a party’s performance is made impracticable without his fault by the occurrence of an unanticipated event.
    — Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2020
  • In any other context, those quarries—now the Carrières des Lumières art venue for light and sound installations—would have been impracticable.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 4 May 2021
  • The expectation or requirement of mask-wearing is impracticable to impose only on those who are vulnerable or may be dangerous.
    — Nicole Saphier, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • In addition, employers should also provide hand sanitizer for when hand washing is impracticable.
    — Anthony J. Oncidi, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2020
  • If dodging becomes impracticable, Lopes recommends finding a mound or large boulder for shelter and covering your head with a backpack when a helmet or hard-hat is unavailable.
    — Giannella M. Garrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • In court filings, the agency argued that changing testing protocols was unnecessary and impracticable.
    — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2026
  • With a growing number of qualifying events already canceled, the summer start date is looking increasingly impracticable.
    — Isabel Reynolds / Bloomberg, Time, 17 Mar. 2020
  • While guides to sustainable touring do exist, their suggestions are often unaffordable or impracticable for most musicians.
    — Jake Blount, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
  • However, a personal guarantee becomes impracticable when there are potentially hundreds of owners, and none of them owns more than 20% of the business.
    — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 7 June 2021
  • Experts believe the plan is impracticable and unlikely to materialize.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The extensive trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley made regular shipments of gold highly impracticable.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The plan’s 10-year phase-in period, which was intended to lower costs and make implementation more feasible, was criticized as impracticable.
    — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
  • Besides, the structure of Prescott’s contract makes that monumentally impracticable.
    — Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The series explores the continual pressure exerted on women — and the particular pressure that women exert on themselves — to achieve an impracticable ideal.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • The Republican appointees said the legal protections apply only in formal immigration proceedings, and would be too impracticable and burdensome to apply at the border.
    — Leah Litman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Contractual force majeure is rarely invoked and enforced to allow the nonperformance of contracts that have become either impossible or impracticable due to some catastrophic event, including natural disasters and wars.
    — Alexander Talel, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023

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