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Example sentences for "impenetrably"

Lexicographically close words:
impendent; impending; impends; impenetrability; impenetrable; impenitence; impenitency; impenitent; impenitently; impensis
  1. Oh, how I hugged myself with joy when I found myself thus impenetrably disguised!

  2. The window panes frozen outside and frosted within reflected the light of the lamp and sparkled, but were impenetrably opaque like the walls and cut off the people from the greying night outside.

  3. It was in the plain view of all, but it seemed to Judas that it had been deeply and impenetrably hidden from sight by some invisible, opaque and cunningly devised film.

  4. If a dog had been under one of the chairs, and had barked, Lady Montbarry could not have proceeded more impenetrably with the last words she had to say to Agnes.

  5. The question is a perfectly natural one on your part,' she said, with the impenetrably ironical manner which she could assume on certain occasions.

  6. Still impenetrably silent, Geoffrey replied by a nod of the head.

  7. Mr. Vanborough looked back into the far corner of the room, in which the lawyer sat, impenetrably waiting for events.

  8. If she was threatened with dismissal, she impenetrably bowed her head, as much as to say, "Give me the word, and I go.

  9. Sir Patrick waited impenetrably to hear more--if he had more to say.

  10. In other words, a human machine, doing its duty impenetrably when it was once wound up.

  11. Her voice went on, clear and a little high, resigned, impenetrably assured.

  12. There she stood impenetrably herself, limitedly intelligent, well-meaning, imitative, and powerless.

  13. The shadow of some past grief rests quietly and impenetrably over the whole man; I see it in his faded blue eyes, on his broad forehead, on his delicate lips, on his pale shriveled cheeks.

  14. The composite man stands by impenetrably silent; the sight of a disabled stranger fails entirely either to surprise or to interest the gardener-groom.

  15. But though impenetrably veiled from him, his public office permitted her to become acquainted with all his actions, his daily course of life, even his conversation.

  16. The Englishman and the Irishman looked at each other: the Anglo-Saxon was impenetrably cool; the Celt was flushed and angry.

  17. In her own very different way, the maid was as impenetrably composed as Mr. Vimpany himself.

  18. No sentiment, no offer of respectful sympathy; a positive declaration of fidelity, left impenetrably to speak for itself.

  19. His wife (so impenetrably cool, thus far) had suddenly become excited.

  20. Old Robert--who had insisted on the minutest formalities and details in providing for his dearly-loved wife--was impenetrably careless about the future of his children.

  21. Ben jamin, impenetrably expecting the signal, kept his open note-book on his knee, covered by his hand.

  22. Major Fitz-David still waited impenetrably to hear what I had to say--to know what I resolved on doing next.

  23. He took no notice of my interruption; he went on impenetrably with his calculations.

  24. Benjamin, in his own impenetrably quiet way.

  25. Felicia was impenetrably silent at first; and Victoria, who never found it easy to adapt herself to the young, made no effort to rouse her.

  26. Impenetrably hidden as it was behind the wall and the trees, the old house was yet, in truth, barely sixty yards away.

  27. Nothing could be more impenetrably tranquil than this little corner in the bend of the protecting rampart, where a cluster of modern ashes is held tenderly in the rugged hand of the Past.

  28. Grace's impenetrably hard and narrow mind impelled her to meet the emergency in a very different way.

  29. His manner was quietly confidential when he spoke, impenetrably self-possessed when he was silent.

  30. His wife, who had sat impenetrably fanning herself up to this time, began to be alarmed, and attempted, quite uselessly, to quiet him.

  31. Betteredge, impenetrably declining to see anybody in the room but himself and me.

  32. Louisa proceeded impenetrably with her packing up.

  33. The sight of the hideous little reptile sitting placid on his rock throne, with his bright eyes staring impenetrably into vacancy, irritated every nerve in her body.

  34. He had never seen her so impenetrably and coldly composed as he saw her now.

  35. She stood impenetrably silent, breathlessly still--as if his question had struck her dead, and his pointing hand had petrified her.

  36. I tried hard to make him think a little before he acted an his first impulse in this matter; but he only went on packing his portmanteau in his own impenetrably good-humored way.

  37. Still impenetrably deaf to the raillery of which he was the object, Mr. Bashwood waited until Pedgift Junior had exhausted himself, and then turned quietly away.

  38. Bashwood will end badly," said the lawyer, shuffling his papers, and returning impenetrably to his interrupted work.

  39. He was as impenetrably superior to all worldly ambition as Diogenes himself.

  40. On first broaching the subject, Allan found his friend impenetrably resolute to remain at home.

  41. He left his seat, impenetrably deaf to all Allan's efforts at rallying him on his extraordinary answer, and resumed his restless pacing of the deck in dead silence.

  42. She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued however impenetrably grave.

  43. But even then the rain continued to fall heavily, and the night, which had come on, was impenetrably black.

  44. We seemed to breathe at the bottom of a shallow sea, white as snow, shining like silver, and impenetrably opaque everywhere, except overhead, where the yellow disc of the moon glittered through a thin cloud of steam.

  45. I followed him in the vivid and extraordinary compulsion of the sinister body that, like one fabulous and enormous monster, swayed impenetrably after me.

  46. From the lighter prairie I cautiously approached the black shadows of the forest, made impenetrably dark by a network of branches and a mat of leaves which no ray from the half grown moon could pierce.

  47. The night remained very still and impenetrably black, though I think that Smilax could see a little with his extraordinary catlike sight.

  48. Does then this thin disguise impenetrably Hide Alvar from thee?

  49. Does then this thin disguise impenetrably 235 Hide Albert from thee?

  50. We have subjected every word to a keen critical scrutiny, and my own brief memories and impressions of lunar things have been of inestimable help in interpreting what would otherwise have been impenetrably dark.

  51. The area of the crater had become enormously vast to our imaginations, the growing thickets already impenetrably dense.

  52. The banks on both sides were impenetrably lined with mangroves, which effectually defied our attempts to land.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impenetrably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.