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Example sentences for "wallow"

Lexicographically close words:
wallflowers; walling; wallop; walloped; walloping; wallowed; wallowing; wallows; wallpaper; wallpapers
  1. These fellows meet to wallow in all the latest crimes; we wallow with them as though we knew more about it than themselves.

  2. He even traced her to the mud wallow where she had rid herself of the bees and honey.

  3. So I shook my head, and he turned away, leaving me to wallow in the mire of contemptible security.

  4. Certainly, very few retain more than a dim vision, which permits them to wallow amongst imitations (such as a last year's Chippendale morality) and imagine themselves well furnished.

  5. And rather choose to wallow in the mire Of want, and torpid inactivity, Than by one bold and masterly exertion Themselves ennoble, and enrich their country!

  6. The huge green turtles wallow through the wave, Well pleas'd alike with land or water, they.

  7. Neither of them have known what it is to wallow in the soft mud on the sides of rivers or the joy of living wild and free; they are fat, sleepy, stupid, and contented.

  8. It is better to stand in hell, sir, than to wallow in it.

  9. He has stuffed himself with the echo of feeble minds; and now let him wallow in his wisdom.

  10. It looked so intolerably absurd to see hogs on cushioned thrones, that they made haste to wallow down upon all fours, like other swine.

  11. To speak critically, indeed, the latter rather carried the thing to excess, and seemed to make it a point to wallow in the miriest part of the sty, and otherwise to outdo the original swine in their own natural vocation.

  12. They all had the very same god working for them and beseeched him to come down and wallow with them.

  13. In these wallow eager hosts of demons, after making their holiday and their delight in tormenting the souls.

  14. On the same page he continues: “It has happened to them [the Papists] according to the proverb: the dog has returned to his vomit and the sow that was washed to wallow in the mire.

  15. They show no disposition to wallow in mire or swamps, like the Buffalo; a habit, indeed, which the sleekness of their skins renders not at all probable.

  16. They do not wallow in mud, like Buffaloes, but delight in water, and stand in it during the greatest heat of the day, with the front of their heads above the surface.

  17. Rubbing-posts, and a running stream to wallow in are preventives.

  18. They thrive better and are generally less subject to disease, when long confined in yards, by having a clear running stream always accessible, to wallow in.

  19. Therefore I cannot say how we got out of Weymouth Harbour, nor why it was necessary to turn sharp to the left and wallow in what appeared to be surf.

  20. You are all in one mass, struggling in the stream to get out and lie and wallow and belch on the banks.

  21. Halil does not want the palaces burnt for the love of the thing, but because he does not want the generals to have an asylum where they may hide, plant flowers, and wallow in vile delights just when they ought to be hastening to the camp.

  22. I want to wallow in every blessed word of hope it contains.

  23. He need but wallow there until the Red Terror should have swept past and until the scorched ground should be once more cool enough to walk on.

  24. Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

  25. The great dripping bull broke out of his wallow like a shell exploding, while Mowgli laughed till he sat down.

  26. By his own hand to remove himself, merely in order that a pack of ungrateful brutes might wallow in his money--it was the scheme of a perfect fool.

  27. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery.

  28. I will live in literature, I will wallow in it, revel in it; I will swim in ink!

  29. Whereupon he would get up and talk and talk, and pace the floor and curse the delays until he had refreshed himself, and then perhaps wallow in millions until breakfast-time.

  30. It was your grandfather finding out what a bad character I am, and how I wallow in luxury, now I have the chance.

  31. We twentieth century Midases have got beyond the simple taste of that founder of the family for the shining yellow qualities of money, but we love to wallow in it none the less.

  32. The last half of the way lay across the hog-wallow country, that peculiar effect which has puzzled many scientists, but which all attribute to the action of water in long past ages.

  33. Every large city has its artistic set, but New York may safely claim the medal for the half-baked neurotics who wallow in illicit cults which they sanctify in the name of art.

  34. They pander to their worst desires and wallow in their alcoholic-fed passions.

  35. Mistaking the sex-heat aroused and stimulated by cocktails and other alcoholic beverages for real love and passion, they wallow in the erotic mire to their heart's content.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bend; blunder; bog; bottom; bottomland; careen; career; cower; cringe; crouch; debauch; dissipate; falter; flounce; flounder; glade; grovel; heave; hunch; labor; lurch; meadow; mire; moor; morass; moss; mud; pitch; plod; plunge; pound; quagmire; quicksand; rake; rear; reel; rock; roll; seethe; slough; squat; stagger; stoop; struggle; stumble; sump; swamp; sway; swing; toss; totter; tumble; wallop; wallow; wanton; wash; welter; whore