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

"It's better to look at what's causing people to be ungovernable," says Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who specialises in polarised democracies.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 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

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

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2023

Shaking from head to foot, thrilled with ungovernable excitement, I continued—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë