impossibly
adverb
im·pos·si·bly
(ˌ)im-ˈpä-sə-blē 
1
: not possibly
2
: to an improbable degree : unbelievably
an impossibly green lawn
Examples of impossibly in a Sentence
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Sandwiched in between this are a stellar batch of offerings including searing dramas, thought-provoking documentaries and even a romantic dramedy with two impossibly beautiful people snuggling up to each other.
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
Where sitcom fathers have tended to be either impossibly perfect or buffoons, Flaherty imbued Harold Weir with comic dignity, no less dignified for being comic, nor comic for being dignified — an imperfect perfect father.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Also, the shots were fired from an impossibly high angle without a convenient tree or neighbors reporting any aircraft in the sky at the time.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
Massive columns, slender spires and impossibly balanced boulders loom above the timber.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
That watch just went from impossible to find to impossibly expensive when these eventually show up at auction.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
Looking at magazines felt somehow like leafing through a catalog of impossibly beautiful objects d’art—gorgeous but abstract, distant.
—Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
Jude Law’s Dickie was impossibly beautiful, the life of every party, and a man with whom the younger Tom Ripley of the movie understandably fell in love with at first sight.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
Where sitcom fathers have tended to be either impossibly perfect or buffoons, Flaherty imbued Harold Weir with comic dignity, no less dignified for being comic, nor comic for being dignified — an imperfect perfect father.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Also, the shots were fired from an impossibly high angle without a convenient tree or neighbors reporting any aircraft in the sky at the time.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
Massive columns, slender spires and impossibly balanced boulders loom above the timber.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
That watch just went from impossible to find to impossibly expensive when these eventually show up at auction.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
Looking at magazines felt somehow like leafing through a catalog of impossibly beautiful objects d’art—gorgeous but abstract, distant.
—Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
Jude Law’s Dickie was impossibly beautiful, the life of every party, and a man with whom the younger Tom Ripley of the movie understandably fell in love with at first sight.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Impossibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impossibly. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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