untamable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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While food, energy, and vehicle prices all calmed down, car premiums remained an untamable beast.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2024
He still faces the challenge of herding an untamable majority with only four votes to spare, amid in-house critics who would gladly see him fail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
Yes I, a writer and apparently a hopeless Romantic, wanted the wild and "troubled" writer character to find true love with the untamable lothario.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
He’d been with Hendrick since he was 18, but the team found him untamable and cut him loose when Dale Earnhardt Jr. became available.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
Ma runs her thumb along my untamable eyebrows.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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