Significats de nearly impregnable en anglès

These trenches, occupying a position nearly impregnable because so mountainous, were defended by every modern device.

Contained within the stout walls, the compound was nearly impregnable against attack from Apaches or white men.

These trenches, already occupying a position nearly impregnable because so mountainous, are defended by every modern protective device.

Besides," she gestured toward her defenses, "this house is as nearly impregnable as I can make it.

The novelist Allegra Goodman is an exception, describing a place where the walls of privilege were manned at all times and nearly impregnable:

The mistake was in attempting to carry a post that was so nearly impregnable, by assault; and this, too, without the cover of artillery.

In anticipation of an attack from the Indians, the settlers had been fortifying their refuge and making the block-house as nearly impregnable as possible.

This fosse is filled with water and spanned by a drawbridge, which when lifted makes the palace nearly impregnable to anything except siege guns.