How to Use wallow in a Sentence

wallow

1 of 2 verb
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  • Buffalo wallow in mud to keep away flies.
  • But the 26-year-old has learned not to wallow in it with the Windy City ThunderBolts.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • Could go on to win: The hearts and minds of anyone who loves to wallow in ennui. 7.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • One swallow doesn’t wallow in mud till a pig in a poke takes flight.
    — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • But Warren doesn’t have much time to wallow in self pity.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The challenge is to take that low and turn it around to a high or else wallow in the adverse effects.
    — Maria Minor, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • No time to wallow in the loss to Antioch with a trip to Lakes awaiting.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Just don’t expect Biden to wallow in those hard truths.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 Mar. 2021
  • What Preston did not do was wallow in what could have been.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
  • But Krieger couldn’t take weeks or months to wallow or sulk, like most people would.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
  • The new show, however, will not wallow in the ick factor.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
  • San Diego can wallow in the bliss of swinging a wrecking ball through the Dodgers, but not the team that represents it.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, Friday was the first day in the past six on which our low temperature did not wallow in the 40s.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Her sad songs say so much and give us permission to wallow.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Garbage is often left to wallow in giant pits away from tourists’ eyes.
    — Benjamin Lowy, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Pigs wallowing in mud and potatoes planted in the field.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • This sedan rides softly, but there is less float and wallow than its size suggests.
    — Phil Berg, Car and Driver, 8 June 2020
  • While Ferrell spends the first half of the series fretting and stuttering, Rudd gets to wallow in the dark muck that is Dr. Ike.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Don’t sit and wallow on your birthday or any other day.
    — Annie Lane | Creators.com, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Don't sit and wallow on your birthday or any other day.
    — cleveland, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Sometimes the bears stopped feasting, and simply wallowed in the water.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The urge to wallow or panic can be strong when you’ve just been blindsided by a layoff.
    — Elaine Welteroth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But the Lions and Pistons are just wallowing in the bad, repeating the same mistakes over and over.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Not to wallow, or gnash my teeth, or cry woe and sadness about the whole situation.
    — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The story, which follows the couple to the West, is a microcosm of the tragedy of a Poland wallowing in hardship and paranoia.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • But the point wasn’t to wallow, Ms. Torres Villarreal said.
    — Natalie Kitroeff, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • To wallow in these texts is to better understand how Italians used to live.
    — Mike McCahill, Variety, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Porter says the purpose of the film isn't to wallow in past suffering, but to understand its origins.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2021
  • The guy likes to wallow, whether it’s in gooey romanticism or heart-on-sleeve expressions of loss.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The good old days weren’t that good For all the gloom that the media is wallowing in about the media, the situation is contradictory.
    — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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wallow

2 of 2 noun
  • Here, the meat inside is juicy from a wallow in sa-cha sauce, with its briny payload of dried shrimp and ground brill.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • One wakes up in the morning, wallows in grievance, and proceeds to spend the day railing against the evils of privilege.
    — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • There are Grevy's zebras, elands, stolid buffaloes in a dry wallow—and always Mount Kenya, piled high with clouds just now, like curls of meringue.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • The baby elephant, nicknamed Happy, was trying to reach the wallow for a drink and a swim with his family.
    — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 7 June 2018
  • For me, fall evokes a kind of present-tense nostalgia — a wallow in fleetingness, perhaps.
    — Bruce Handy, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Sometimes, when all lighter diversions have failed, what a person who’s been in confinement needs is a wallow in the pitch-black mud.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 May 2020
  • The Ghost's pillowy initial response to a bump feels as if it will be followed by the wallow of a '60s land yacht, but the air springs and adaptive dampers arrest the seemingly inevitable counter heave.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The prospect of another long wallow in the misery of Harry Hope's saloon should give even the most intrepid theatergoer pause.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • The area is very secluded and bulls like to go to the meadow for a big drink and a refreshing splash in the wallow during midday, while their harem is sleeping off a night of debauchery.
    — Outdoor Life, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The hogs cause erosion and create wallows that collect water and serve as breeding areas for mosquitoes, Aplaca said.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Most are pointless wallows in the suffering of others, real or fictional.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • One of the things I was reminded of when taking a recent deep wallow in Watergate history was how much fun that scandal was at the time, even as a grave constitutional crisis loomed.
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Aug. 2017
  • These depressions can provide a habitat for ground-nesting birds and insects, and spring rains can fill the wallows with water, creating temporary ponds that are home to frogs and other amphibians.
    — Mark Tutton, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • In Seoul, a shuttered restaurant wallows in an ordinarily bustling market.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2020
  • At some point, the water level rose, burying the wallow in sediment, and preserving this priceless fecal Pompeii for posterity.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Feral hogs, descendants of domestic pigs, also rip up wetlands, turning them into muddy wallows.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The updated exhibit will feature mud wallows, grasses, pools, streams and naturalistic trees.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
  • Late in his tenure as New Jersey’s governor, the onetime political rock star was reduced to an almost defiant wallow after becoming the most unpopular governor in the history of the state.
    — Carrie Dann, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Getting there, however, makes for an entertaining wallow in bad relationship advice from Daphne du Maurier.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • Here, the meat inside is juicy from a wallow in sa-cha sauce, with its briny payload of dried shrimp and ground brill.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • One wakes up in the morning, wallows in grievance, and proceeds to spend the day railing against the evils of privilege.
    — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • There are Grevy's zebras, elands, stolid buffaloes in a dry wallow—and always Mount Kenya, piled high with clouds just now, like curls of meringue.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • The baby elephant, nicknamed Happy, was trying to reach the wallow for a drink and a swim with his family.
    — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 7 June 2018
  • For me, fall evokes a kind of present-tense nostalgia — a wallow in fleetingness, perhaps.
    — Bruce Handy, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Sometimes, when all lighter diversions have failed, what a person who’s been in confinement needs is a wallow in the pitch-black mud.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 May 2020
  • The Ghost's pillowy initial response to a bump feels as if it will be followed by the wallow of a '60s land yacht, but the air springs and adaptive dampers arrest the seemingly inevitable counter heave.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The prospect of another long wallow in the misery of Harry Hope's saloon should give even the most intrepid theatergoer pause.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • The area is very secluded and bulls like to go to the meadow for a big drink and a refreshing splash in the wallow during midday, while their harem is sleeping off a night of debauchery.
    — Outdoor Life, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The hogs cause erosion and create wallows that collect water and serve as breeding areas for mosquitoes, Aplaca said.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Most are pointless wallows in the suffering of others, real or fictional.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024

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