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  • adjective of a body of water unable to be forded

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un- +‎ fordable

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Examples

  • The sector, which had been quiet for most of four years, stretched some 20 miles from the unfordable Meuse River through the large Argonne Forest.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • The sector, which had been quiet for most of four years, stretched some 20 miles from the unfordable Meuse River through the large Argonne Forest.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • The New River, a formerly dry barranca now pouring Colorado River water into the Salton Sea, soon became unfordable by conventional means.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Owing to its swollen condition the river was unfordable but knowing that there was a covered bridge at Duguidsville, I hoped to secure it by a dash, and cross there, but the enemy, anticipating this, had filled the bridge with inflammable material, and just as our troops got within striking distance it burst into flames.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • The New River, a formerly dry barranca now pouring Colorado River water into the Salton Sea, soon became unfordable by conventional means.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Mass recently passed a Hillary style plan, and it's a politcal disaster with rates going up and tens of thousands of people getting insurance waivers due to unfordable rates.

    Early Exit Polls: In Virginia, Obama Has Big Lead Over Hillary -- Among Women 2009

  • Believe me, when aluminum is so scarce that it is unfordable, incentives to recycle will develop.

    61 Nobel Laureates can’t be wrong daniel 2008

  • It poured and poured with rain, so the stream at the border of the undiscovered country became a river--not only unjumpable, but unfordable as well, very deep and very very fast, and very wide!

    water song asakiyume 2008

  • And if books or supplies are unfordable, perhaps we as a society can find the wherewithal to subsidize the $300 per semester these youth would need to cover those expenses.

    David Ambroz: An Elegant Solution: Act III: Interrupting Generations of Poverty, Abuse and Neglect with Education 2008

  • Now in a double twist of fate, as demand for ethanol drives corn prices to record levels, Mexicans are left with no farmers to grow corn and high priced corn from the US as their only (unfordable) choice.

    Food Sovereignty or Food Dependence? 2007

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