How to Use unbridgeable in a Sentence

unbridgeable

adjective
  • Between a woman who has given birth and one who hasn’t lies an unbridgeable gap.
    — M.j. Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • For better or worse, there is an unbridgeable divide between all of us.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
  • No matter how close the two friends may have been, there remains an unbridgeable class divide.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • Jaron had been and still was their balancing point, and without him the gap seemed unbridgeable.
    — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • And the divide was unbridgeable.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • There is a growing, nigh-unbridgeable cultural gap over guns.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 June 2021
  • But on none of them is the range of public opinion, or the range of available options, so wide as to be unbridgeable.
    — Christopher Demuth Sr., National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • At first glance, the gap between us and the Japanese seemed unbridgeable.
    — Johann Hari, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • That gap was once seen as an unbridgeable divide preventing any sort of equal pay settlement.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • An unbridgeable distance opens between them.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There is an unbridgeable divide in the way left and right perceive this reality.
    — Dennis Prager, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
  • As a result, the spending gap between the top two teams in Spain has become unbridgeable.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Without Laporte, City may find themselves with an unbridgeable gap to make up.
    — SI.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • There is now an unbridgeable gap between the cost to drill for oil domestically and the price paid for oil on the market.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 6 Apr. 2020
  • What was once an ideological divide now seems like an unbridgeable chasm.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • From there, the story has taken on a life of its own — with seemingly unbridgeable positions on both sides and threats from strangers.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Bob and Ed find ways to coexist despite the unbridgeable distances between them.
    — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Some see the trend as another sign — or maybe even a cause — of the country’s seemingly unbridgeable divisions.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • Negotiators will have to bridge seemingly unbridgeable gaps between the two sides.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The two halves of high-schooler Kamala Khan’s life initially seem unbridgeable.
    — Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
  • The window to act — before the gap between AI haves and have-nots becomes unbridgeable — is closing fast.
    — Sha Rabii, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Some of Ellis’s most arresting work would render the unbridgeable gap between him and his father in stark, formal terms.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • That alone goes far in explaining the unbridgeable differences between Right and Left.
    — Dennis Prager, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The distance between man and God, and also the unbridgeable distance within man himself — between the mind and the heart.
    — Dina Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Everything felt worse because of the distance, made unbridgeable by circumstance.
    — Josh Gondelman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • While their origins differ, both reflect deep structural grievances and an unbridgeable gap between state and society.
    — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • For a young artist with dreams of conquering the world, the gulf between aspiration and reality can seem unbridgeable.
    — Time, 29 Nov. 2022
  • This is still a disturbing story about what happens when the emotional gulf between parent and child becomes unbridgeable.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The cultural and financial gap between elites and nonelites has become vast and seemingly unbridgeable.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Was there an unbridgeable divide between France’s vision of itself and its actual power?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021

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