uncontained
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Like the even larger Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire remains totally uncontained.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025
The map notes that the Palisades Fire - like the two other blazes - is totally uncontained.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
The Davis fire, which started Saturday morning, had burned 6,500 acres and remained completely uncontained as of Monday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2024
By 8:30 p.m., the blaze, dubbed the Record fire, had spread to 650 acres and remained uncontained.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024
Tales of Lynds’s feat—of inducing inmates to build for themselves the largest prison in the land while unmanacled, uncontained by a prison wall—spread across the country and abroad.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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