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
  • Over the past few years, the world has carried an insurmountable amount of grief.
    — Ebony Joseph, Good Housekeeping, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The good news is that this isn’t an insurmountable problem.
    — The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Costs are high but not insurmountable.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • His absence has left a void in my life that feels insurmountable at the moment.
    — Variety, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • For many, those costs are insurmountable.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
  • From there, the task seemed insurmountable.
    — Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And all of a sudden, that once not-so-insurmountable lead soon became a blowout.
    — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2020
  • There are so many obstacles in their way that can feel insurmountable.
    — Staff Author, Parents, 24 May 2026
  • But what about the feeling that our problems are vast and insurmountable?
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
  • But the way the two teams are playing right now, the gap might grow insurmountable before too long.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
  • These obstacles seemed insurmountable, but the group pushed on for over three years.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
  • That distance, in the past two years, has come to seem seismic, insurmountable.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This time, though, the battle might be insurmountable.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But the plot requires that the insurmountable be mounted, of course.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 June 2020
  • The trade-off was nearly insurmountable, but humans found a way.
    — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • And on this day, a 16-6 lead proved insurmountable.
    — Kansas City Star, 21 Dec. 2025
  • This is not something that is insurmountable.
    — Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The dilemma seemed insurmountable at the time.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Each repair seemed like an insurmountable task.
    — Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Tasks that once felt simple like opening mail or paying bills can feel insurmountable.
    — Tiffany Aliche, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
  • All of these are far from insurmountable challenges and Palace are heavy favourites for good reason.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Should that be the case, a multi-score cushion for the Ducks could prove insurmountable.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • None of these issues seems insurmountable, Jim said.
    — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • If the desire to know is insurmountable, so too are the consequences.
    — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
  • In some ways—maybe most ways—Christine and the Queens seems like an insurmountable force.
    — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The toll that the virus has taken on her family and so many others is insurmountable.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The problem of scale, as Wey points out, is nearly insurmountable.
    — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Thoughts about sad events stopped causing days-long spirals, and tasks that once felt insurmountable were no longer a second thought.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026

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