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
The fires, which have been particularly uncontainable this year, only compound that discontent.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
By June, it was so big that it was uncontainable.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
Art Spiegleman’s “Maus” depicts his father, a concentration camp survivor, as a rodent — partly in an effort to find a visual language that can contain uncontainable trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
