How to Use untamable in a Sentence

untamable

adjective
  • My splotchy skin and bushy eyebrows felt untamable; my arms too long.
    — Abby Sher, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The young golfer sized up one of those seemingly untamable shots out of the thick stuff.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • But this tranquil childhood lair cannot protect the sisters from the danger ahead as Elsa's untamable powers are revealed.
    — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Visitors can find real solitude in a wilderness that feels untamable, despite a human history that dates back thousands of years.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • Suicidality can also be like a wave that subsides only to return suddenly as an untamable swell.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • The formal, structured design of the chandelier has been reenvisaged as untamable nature.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In celebrating this day of the dead and of temporary transformation, give a thought to one of the oldest and most untamable microbes, the rabies virus.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
  • In Still Austin’s case, the result of this mixture of science, chemistry, and the untamable force of nature is a tasty rye whiskey that also has a point of view.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Perhaps more than ever, Hayes is the circus master of his untamable mind, a seemingly endless source of ear-worm melodies and ingenious wordplay.
    — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Corsican pride is untamable; Corsicans’ allegiance is to their own flag, their own traditions, their own mountain.
    — National Geographic, 24 July 2019
  • Among the rich tumult of untamable alleys, shops—intentionally unchanged—are not only storefronts but workshops.
    — Tamar Adler, CNT, 31 May 2017
  • McCracken’s narrator radiates love for her mother, a feisty enthusiast with untamable curls who is indeed the hero of her book.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The mobiles are Rower’s untamable creatures, swinging close to heads, shaking and shimmering unpredictably.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • An altogether untamable stadium in which traditional expectations about what the game is should be set aside and the wonkiness accepted.
    — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
  • The intensifying battles against an untamable black market come just as the country inches closer to big federal changes that could open the door to nationwide legalization.
    — Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • By focusing on wild apples, Thoreau was making his standard argument for the uncultivated and untamable aspects of life.
    — Longreads, 13 July 2017
  • An offbeat choice, but everything about Abel Ferrara is offbeat, improbable, untamable, and legend-obscured.
    — James Wolcott, HWD, 19 June 2017
  • Dark, explosive, pitiless, destructive, tornadoes are nature at its inhuman extreme, arousing awe and terror, the ultimate in the untamable and unknowable.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
  • Its oversize dimensions make tight spaces treacherous, but an astonishing suspension and comfy cabin mean no territory is untamable and no trip is uncomfortable.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Some details may remain uncertain, some chaos untamable, but the basic conclusion is a matter of unwavering scientific agreement — 97% is a rare degree of consensus on almost any subject.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Artificial intelligence—a productivity-maximizing tool to some and an untamable threat to others—has asked similar questions of the social contract in the 21st century, and the optimists appear to be winning the day.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As Case continues touring Neon Grey Midnight Green across North America, fellow New Pornographer Dan Bejar will play a solo Destroyer set at select dates, making for a heady counterpart to her untamable presence.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2026

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