contain
verb (used with object)
to hold or include within its volume or area.
uncontainable
-
a word derived from
contain.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
If you knew nothing of Cheever’s work, you might sit up in your chair with surprise at that sentence—for its eruption of uncontainable joy expressed via an almost comically surreal image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The fires, which have been particularly uncontainable this year, only compound that discontent.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
It’s expressed in his new film’s climax, a crisis of uncontainable fondness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
By June, it was so big that it was uncontainable.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
She’d stopped wearing her hair in pigtails, and now it ranged about her shoulders like kudzu, untamed, uncontainable.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
