Sample sentences for IRREPRESSIBLE

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impossible to repress or control

Fitzy's irrepressible voice is both sarcastic and welcoming, like he just can't decide which way to go.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went

Then the tide of buffalo swept on, over, once more a flat, level multitude of heads and humps, irrepressible as an avalanche.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
"By Heaven! it is well-nigh gone!" said Aylmer to himself, in almost irrepressible ecstasy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
But even in tragedy he was irrepressibly funny.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
His was an involuntary confidence, an irrepressible effusion to a soothing friend—not an application to a parent.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
[Laughing in irrepressible glee.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
I grab Will's arm to keep him from leaving, but he moves forward with irrepressible force.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent
He was subdued then, no longer the irrepressible Mervyn we used to know, very kind and quiet.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
An irrepressible grin runs from face to face among the brigands.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Dinah spoke again, in a tone made stronger by irrepressible emotion, "Hetty.... it's Dinah."
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
But here the two sisters could restrain themselves no longer, and both of them burst into irrepressible laughter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Now, if you don't mind, I'd like you to tell me anything you know about the irrepressible Mr. Lukens.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
"All right," he said to himself, with an irrepressible frown, "let her sleep alone."
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher
Despite the imp's irrepressible disdain and delight in misfortune, Max also detected a certain fondness for his subject, especially children.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
The old man uttered an irrepressible cry.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
The light rendered every limb and joint discernible, and Duncan turned away in horror when he saw they were writhing in irrepressible agony.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
We burst into gasps of irrepressible snickering.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Madame Bovary turned away her head that he might not see the irrepressible smile she felt rising to her lips.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
It was the old Connor that Max heard in the letter—the cocksure, mischievous boy with a mop of brown curls and an irrepressible spirit.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

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