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

His trainspotting reaction videos, showing his uncontainable, wholesome excitement as locomotives fly by, appeared to touch people during the pandemic, with comments underneath regularly pointing to the dose of joy he provided.

From BBC • May 23, 2024

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

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

Pali was a patchwork hybrid, an uncontainable advancement — an associative language model analog, built on the back of its symbolic-knowledge-model predecessor.

From Salon • May 21, 2023

Then they had no time to think about it again, because Amaranta Úrsula was bleeding in an uncontainable torrent.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez