incontrollable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of incontrollable
First recorded in 1590–1600; in- 3 + controllable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Dick Fuld is reading his opening statement which can be found in full here, declaring that his bank's demise was caused by "incontrollable market forces" and "incorrect rumours" about its financial position.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2010
Tarrant, whose desire for escape had now become incontrollable, used the intervening time in a rush of preparations.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
"Where are your Things?" asked Mrs. Wragge, with a burst of incontrollable anxiety.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
For records of travel he craved with an incontrollable passion: a feeling which was, in reality, but a revivification of the ardour awakened in his boyish mind by the adventures of the shipwrecked Crusoe.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
A stronger and hardier brute never trod the prairie; but the novel sight of the buffalo filled him with terror, and when at full speed he was almost incontrollable.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
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