How to Use untamable in a Sentence

untamable

adjective

• The young golfer sized up one of those seemingly untamable shots out of the thick stuff.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2021
• My splotchy skin and bushy eyebrows felt untamable; my arms too long.
  — Abby Sher, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• She’s wild and strange — or in a term these cowboys might better understand, untamable.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
• But this tranquil childhood lair cannot protect the sisters from the danger ahead as Elsa's untamable powers are revealed.
  — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
• The formal, structured design of the chandelier has been reenvisaged as untamable nature.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• McCracken’s narrator radiates love for her mother, a feisty enthusiast with untamable curls who is indeed the hero of her book.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Corsican pride is untamable; Corsicans’ allegiance is to their own flag, their own traditions, their own mountain.
  — National Geographic, 24 July 2019
• Among the rich tumult of untamable alleys, shops—intentionally unchanged—are not only storefronts but workshops.
  — Tamar Adler, CNT, 31 May 2017
• By focusing on wild apples, Thoreau was making his standard argument for the uncultivated and untamable aspects of life.
  — Longreads, 13 July 2017
• An altogether untamable stadium in which traditional expectations about what the game is should be set aside and the wonkiness accepted.
  — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
• An offbeat choice, but everything about Abel Ferrara is offbeat, improbable, untamable, and legend-obscured.
  — James Wolcott, HWD, 19 June 2017
• Dark, explosive, pitiless, destructive, tornadoes are nature at its inhuman extreme, arousing awe and terror, the ultimate in the untamable and unknowable.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
• Its oversize dimensions make tight spaces treacherous, but an astonishing suspension and comfy cabin mean no territory is untamable and no trip is uncomfortable.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Oct. 2017
• Through methodical, dispassionate testimony, Hutchinson brought the committee and those watching directly inside Trump’s Oval Office, which bore frightening resemblance to a day-care center catering to a particularly spoiled and untamable child.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
• Four-, five- and higher-dimensional shapes are essentially untamable: the range of possibilities is so enormous that mathematicians have limited their ambitions to understanding specialized subclasses of them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2012

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024