ungovernable

Example Sentences

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And so an outcast couple, immoral and ungovernable, served as the vanguard for new European settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

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

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