ungovernable
Example Sentences
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At a news conference this week, the prime minister said: "No, I don't think Britain is ungovernable."
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith talks about overseeing an ungovernable government.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
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
So as I watched canary-yellow Canadian Super Scooper planes roar into Los Angeles to help douse the ungovernable firestorms threatening my home, my grieving Nova Scotian heart soared: reciprocity between old friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
