tameless

Example Sentences

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When the production ends in song and dance — a tameless exaltation of noise and movement — it seemed to leave even the air in the theater tremulous with excitement.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

"And then there was Abe, loyal as they came, quiet when quiet was called for, and, if need be, tameless as the stalking lion."

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2015

When Uday was in his mid-20s, Saddam wrote his tameless son a letter, on official presidential stationery, in an effort to rein him in.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chaplain loved his wife and children with such tameless intensity that he often wanted to sink to the ground helplessly and weep like a castaway cripple.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But he bows before the inexorable fate which has cramped his energies: A heavy weight of years has chained and bowed One too like thee; tameless and swift and proud.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir