Example Sentences

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And yet, though every piece eventually finds its place, this colorful entrée of a movie possesses an unruly spirit, as untameable as the live chicken that Linda and Paulette are after.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Theater flirts with the untameable sublime even in its “safest” spaces.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2019

In fact the vote on June 23rd produced an intemperate, untameable animal.

From Economist • Dec. 1, 2016

Whoever has that little bit of the untameable, I suppose.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2013

As it drew near the great furnaces where, in the deeps of time, it had been shaped and forged, the Ring’s power grew, and it became more fell, untameable save by some mighty will.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien