How to Use ungovernable in a Sentence
ungovernable
adjective- The people there seemed almost ungovernable.
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New York is a tough town and has been deemed ungovernable at times.
—Time, 10 July 2021
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The next six months before the midterms will put the ungovernable House on display.
—David Dayen, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
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Large areas of the north and east have become ungovernable since 2018.
—Reuters, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
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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
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The sky, its expanse, and the dark mystery beyond it are ungovernable.
—Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2021
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But at the time the city was deemed by statehood opponents as ungovernable.
—CBS News, 4 July 2021
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The insurgency has left many parts of the north of the country ungovernable and killed hundreds.
—Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa, 22 Mar. 2020
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The old nostrum that France is ungovernable may be tested again.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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So, more broadly, does the future of the narrative of men’s ungovernable desires.
—Anna North, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
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Get our daily newsletter Chad is at the heart of Africa’s most ungovernable region.
—The Economist, 18 July 2019
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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
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Large areas of the north and east of Burkina Faso have become ungovernable since 2018.
—Maija Ehlinger, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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