How to Use ungovernable in a Sentence

ungovernable

adjective

• The people there seemed almost ungovernable.
• New York is a tough town and has been deemed ungovernable at times.
  — Time, 10 July 2021
• The next six months before the midterms will put the ungovernable House on display.
  — David Dayen, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
• Large areas of the north and east have become ungovernable since 2018.
  — Reuters, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• To shut down the war, the antiwar movement and the country as a whole had to become ungovernable.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2017
• The sky, its expanse, and the dark mystery beyond it are ungovernable.
  — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• But at the time the city was deemed by statehood opponents as ungovernable.
  — CBS News, 4 July 2021
• The insurgency has left many parts of the north of the country ungovernable and killed hundreds.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa, 22 Mar. 2020
• The old nostrum that France is ungovernable may be tested again.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• Women will become ungovernable as these unjust laws begin to be the law of the land in states across the country.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• But some maintain that, at its core, the platform is ungovernable, and that not enough has changed in time for November.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 22 June 2020
• How much harder to make the case in the Balkans: Kosovo and Serbia are at daggers drawn, and Bosnia is an ungovernable mess.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2019
• So, more broadly, does the future of the narrative of men’s ungovernable desires.
  — Anna North, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
• Get our daily newsletter Chad is at the heart of Africa’s most ungovernable region.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• These last few years of Twitter-screams and brimstone have left us more divided than ever and close to ungovernable.
  — David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2020
• Large areas of the north and east of Burkina Faso have become ungovernable since 2018.
  — Maija Ehlinger, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
• Whoever wins will face the daunting challenge of governing a place long ago called the ungovernable city, and facing some of the toughest times in decades.
  — ABC News, 6 June 2021
• The moon is passé; at an outpost, fast food chains flash familiar neon signs, while the ungovernable far side is a wild west of untapped resources fought over by space pirates.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• Both sides agree that the city will become ungovernable without some kind of political change.
  — Keith Bradsher Photographs By Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• When House Democrats appeared in disarray in the fall of 2021, no one could be blamed for saying that situation, too, was ungovernable.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Mehta is not an easy act to follow, yet Shani is clearly the right guy — tough and terrific — at the right time and place for this famously ungovernable orchestra.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• McCarthy is just the latest in a string of House Republican leaders who’ve found their caucus more or less ungovernable.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Claiming that the current version of the constitution has made Haiti ungovernable, Moïse wants to reform the statutes through a referendum in April.
  — Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021
• Whoever assumes the role will be the leader of what the last few days have shown is likely to be a fractious, even ungovernable, Republican caucus.
  — Michael Fanone, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
• Though just two hours from Mexico City by plane, Campeche was, in those days, far from the centers of colonial power and virtually ungovernable.
  — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• Hundreds of thousands have died in Syria, while Libya after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi is an ungovernable, dangerous mess.
  — David Crary, The Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2020
• Large swathes of the West African gold producer have become ungovernable since Islamist militants based in Mali expanded their reach across the border four years ago.
  — Simon Gongo, Bloomberg.com, 22 Nov. 2020
• His caucus is ungovernable and will insist on doing destructive, often crazy things, to appeal to its base, its donors, and its media organs.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
• Every society has to confront the ungovernable genie of sexuality and tries various ways to deal with it, and none of them work very well.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2018
• Many have scratched their heads in amazement as the United Kingdom, previously so pragmatic, reliable, and, well, boring, seemed to descend into ungovernable chaos.
  — Anand Menon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024