WALLOW in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for WALLOW, such as:
1. A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops.
2. He loves to wallow in a hot bath after a game.
3. The regiment slid down a bank and wallowed across a little stream.
4. Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.
5. It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.
2. He loves to wallow in a hot bath after a game.
3. The regiment slid down a bank and wallowed across a little stream.
4. Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.
5. It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.
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Meanings and Examples of WALLOW
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wallow
v. roll in water, snow, or mud; indulge in; move with difficulty in clumsy manner; plunge into course or condition
Classic Sentence:
1 Now secure, she wanted to dance, to play, to riot, to gorge on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds and fine upholstery.
2 It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.
3 The regiment slid down a bank and wallowed across a little stream.
4 Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5 You flouted the ministers of holy religion, you turned your back on the confessional, you wallowed deeper and deeper in the mire of sin.
6 He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the eagle.
7 The teachers in these institutions came not to keep the Negroes in their place, but to raise them out of the defilement of the places where slavery had wallowed them.
8 Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.
9 A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops.
10 The wallowing in private emotion, the utter abasement of his manly self, seemed to lend him a second nature, cold, almost visionary, business-clever.
11 All the shallower ponds had decreased to a vaporous mud amid which the maggoty shapes of innumerable obscure creatures could be indistinctly seen, heaving and wallowing with enjoyment.
12 The case is so hopeless, and I feel that I am wallowing in such a bog of nonsense, that I give up all idea of getting out, and abandon myself to my fate.
13 I came upon a boiler wallowing in the grass, then found a path leading up the hill.
14 Here Earth's ancient children, the Titans' brood, hurled down by the thunderbolt, lie wallowing in the abyss.
Example Sentence:
1 You may be negative about your experiences and employment status but don't wallow in it.
2 He loves to wallow in a hot bath after a game.