ungovernable

Example Sentences

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The 34-year-old, with scant managerial experience, will have to manage a famously ungovernable city in all of its vast complexity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Meanwhile, the ocean itself plays its ungovernable part.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

Or could Germany's economic challenge be supplemented by a French-style ungovernable political impasse?

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024

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

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2023

She watched him put on his socks, with a mixed expression of injury and the ungovernable interest of someone who has been examining laundered socks for holes for a great many years.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger