untamed

British

/ ʌnˈteɪmd /

adjective

not cultivated, domesticated, or controlled

beautiful untamed wilderness

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Example Sentences

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But what he’s missing in size he more than makes up for in strength, intensity, and untamed anger.

From Literature

“Wild, untamed creatures! Now I cannot hear myself think, not that I much care for thinking.”

From Literature

“It mystifies me, Miss Lumley, how you can even persist in calling those three untamed creatures ‘children.’

From Literature

It’s about railroads and bridges carved into untamed expanses of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the sacrifices and growing pains necessary to move the country toward modernity.

From Los Angeles Times

“He was seen as impulsive and untamed, like a horse you ride and it throws you off,” said Eduardo Guerrero, a security consultant based in Mexico City.

From The Wall Street Journal

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