uncontainable

Example Sentences

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If you knew nothing of Cheever’s work, you might sit up in your chair with surprise at that sentence—for its eruption of uncontainable joy expressed via an almost comically surreal image.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Still, non-TV-writer me was struck by futurist Sinead Bovell’s forceful comments on artificial intelligence, perceived by many Hollywood writers as a potentially uncontainable beast poised to ravage their livelihood.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024

Demonstrations can only be banned if police chiefs have credible evidence they are likely to lead to uncontainable disorder.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2024

By June, it was so big that it was uncontainable.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

She’d stopped wearing her hair in pigtails, and now it ranged about her shoulders like kudzu, untamed, uncontainable.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray