ungovernable

Example Sentences

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A snap legislative election last year produced an ungovernable National Assembly split three ways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Meanwhile, the ocean itself plays its ungovernable part.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

He stopped short of saying the Conservative Party was "ungovernable", characterising his account as more of a "description of politics more generally".

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

First, we begin our extended discussion of the ungovernable House with the thorniest of thorns.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2023

Shaking from head to foot, thrilled with ungovernable excitement, I continued—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë