How to Use uncontainable in a Sentence

uncontainable

adjective
  • And love can be like that sometimes, a raging storm or an uncontainable wildfire.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The only thing that is certain is the uncontainable passion, as depicted by the final two lines.
    Ruben Quesada Victoria Chang, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In the prime of his career, in the mid-90s through the mid-aughts, he was considered one of hockey’s greatest players, a combination of uncontainable speed and skill.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • Jerry Lewis, who died Aug. 20 at 91, was a comic actor whose rubber-limbed pratfalls, squeaky voice and pipsqueak buffoonery made him one of the most uncontainable screen clowns of all time.
    Adam Bernstein, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Giannis is uncontainable, and Bobby Portis creates a matchup issue because of his ability to stretch the floor from the 4 or 5.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • In the photos, Charlotte ranges from exuding uncontainable excitement over the games to downright contempt for the affair.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Nuclear war is so destructive, so uncontainable, that a nuclear exchange anywhere would be felt the world over.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Cloaked by night and therefore hidden from Roxane’s eyes, Cyrano here finally lets Roxane see his true self; the love and uncontainable joy in Ridge’s voice will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been there.
    Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2017
  • Sadr quickly established himself as an uncontainable force in Iraq.
    Thanassis Cambanis, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
  • The pledges are part of a concerted scramble by European Union countries to prevent uncontainable damage to the economy as businesses shutter at alarming rates.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • For an object that is fundamentally a box, designed to keep things inside it, the shipping container is a remarkable lesson in the uncontainable nature of modern life—the way our choices, like our goods, ramify around the world.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Moreover, Erickson’s output was so varied as to be uncontainable.
    Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 7 June 2019
  • Their third album, Headful of Sugar, out May 6, is a riotous rush of melodic hooks, rhythmic energy, adventurous production, and an uncontainable passion for life as a rock & roll band that the last two years have only made stronger.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Arca always pushes us out of our musical comfort zones, experimenting with form and genre in ways that are unwieldy and can feel uncontainable, but are always beautiful.
    Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, to be forced to choose between a) war under unfavorable circumstances for which America is not prepared, and b) the emergence of an aggressive, uncontainable, existential threat is not just a failure.
    Jim Talent, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The crowd radiates a chaotic, uncontainable energy, understanding that there will be a precise before and after this moment.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2023
  • If and when the outbreak is deemed uncontainable, the government will inevitably impose restrictions and introduce emergency legislation to ensure that public services and the economy are able to cope.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2020
  • And Russell, making a remarkable big-screen debut, acts with a soulful gravity that is the perfect emotional counterweight to Harrison’s brooding and uncontainable fury.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
  • But the policy proved unsustainable owing to the overzealousness of its implementation and the uncontainable infectiousness of the Omicron variant.
    Lynette H. Ong, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Though hardly the first to do so (see Kellogg and masturbation), his influence, along with the seemingly uncontainable wellness industry, has given us another layer under which to cloak diet culture.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Fuelled by rising prices and crypto-native investment vehicles, the appetite for cryptocurrencies and N.F.T.s often feels uncontainable, unable to be absorbed by the incumbent tech giants.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Cromer’s brooding countenance captures Vanya’s uncontainable frustration.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • Thematically, the books share similar ideas, with humanity facing an expanding, uncontainable ecological crisis (kinda like global warming!).
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 22 Feb. 2018

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