uncontrollably

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • The break was desperately needed — physically and mentally — as the Sharks have won just five of 27 games since trading goalie Mackenzie Blackwood to the Colorado Avalanche on Dec. 9.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Now in his second year at Tech, McCasland is the hire that Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt desperately needed for a program in search of stability.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The Frenchman glided forward as players from both teams frantically rearranged themselves around him, then slowed up well short of the Brighton penalty area.
    Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Clouds of smoke could be seen coming from flames as crowds of onlookers frantically gathered around.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The proof theatrically is that the production is a rapt and riotous collective with a long list credits all seemingly on the same wildly unpredictable page.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The idea — not uncontroversial but still wildly popular over a century later — is that differing combinations of responses can be wrangled into conclusions about the psyches of those who sit the test.
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Throughout the 2010s, celebrities ran amok with political symbolism that cued to pro-Blackness and radical ideas.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Such is the plight of the shepherds across the land, whose sheep are constantly running amok for one reason or another.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Her theft results in the throwers of those coins—played by Will Arnett, Danny DeVito, Jon Heder, and Bell’s future husband Dax Shepard—falling madly in love with her.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Gage and Harvey Guillén play boyfriends who appear to be madly in love.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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