wallow

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The hippo wallowed in the muddy water.

Life decays and reeks and returns to the rotted duff; a poignant wallow of death begetting life.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

The frogs had gone to their wallows; the salamanders slept in brown holes.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

She was just really bitter and hopeless, and she wallowed in that hopelessness.†  (source) Misty Bernall, She Said Yes, 1999

People caught hookworms going barefooted in barnyards and hog wallows.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

He would like to have a bath, a proper wallow with soap.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

*same To which thing shortly answeren I shall: I say there was no joy nor feast at all, There was but heaviness and muche sorrow: For privily he wed her on the morrow; And all day after hid him as an owl, So woe was him, his wife look'd so foul Great was the woe the knight had in his thought When he was with his wife to bed y-brought; He wallow'd, and he turned to and fro.†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

Rats were everywhere, climbing up his waste bucket and wallowing in his urine pail, waking him at night by skittering over his face.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

But it wallowed like a pig, and the second-class deck overlooked the first-class one, so you couldn't walk about there without a railing-full of impecunious gawkers checking you over.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows,  (source) Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894

Of course it was too freaking peaceful to last, right? I mean, there was no way I was going to wallow in serenity for more than two seconds, right?  (source) James Patterson, School's Out - Forever, 2006

Don't think I'm only a brute in an officer's uniform, wallowing in dirt and drink.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Don't wallow in your insecurities. Overcome them.

We don't wallow around in the Games this way in District 12. We grit our teeth and watch because we must and try to get back to business as soon as possible when they're over.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Often, we wallow too much in ghamkhori and self-pity.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

I wallowed in words. There was no end to them.  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed, 2003

All of his life he had squandered his choices, wallowing in revenge and self-pity, keeping himself down.  (source) Ben Mikaeslen, Touching Spirit Bear, 2001

But they don't have to go to the courthouse and wallow in it-  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

As much as Alyss had wallowed in the depths of her sorrow moments before, she now entered into the buoyant pleasure of the chase, laughing with each near-tagging of her younger self.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

Then he went down on all fours and crawled off, begging them to let him alone, and he rolled himself up in his blanket and wallowed in under the old pine table, still a-begging; and then he went to crying.  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

I have seen them, Conrade, in the visions of the night—their sainted eyes shed tears for the sins and follies of their brethren, and for the foul and shameful luxury in which they wallow.  (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

Wallow around in there with her, pigs in pink bubbles.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

We made poor time as we wallowed through the mud.

This caused the plane to slow dramatically and almost seem to stop and wallow in the air.  (source) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987

Among the casualties was a stone-crab boat called the Molly Bell, which was torn from her anchorage and swept up a swollen tidal creek, where she wallowed and sank from sight.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

They maneuvered even closer until the boat wallowed next to Tate, sloshing water up his thighs.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

But the fish did not come. Instead he lay there wallowing now in the seas and the old man pulled the skiff up onto him.  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, 1952

The heavy load of supplies caused the skiff to wallow through the waves.  (source) Ben Mikaeslen, Touching Spirit Bear, 2001

The rudder is slow and unreliable, the sail too short and the mast too long. It wallows like a cow in any surge.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

The Ginnie Paul wallowed like the broad-beamed matron she was.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw...  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

As the snow softened in the afternoon sun, the hoofs of our yaks punched through the frozen crust, and the beasts wallowed to their bellies.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

There seemed to be just as many vehicles wallowing in the mud holes as there had been then, except that there were no Confederate ambulances,  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

The wind had risen some and the old vessel wallowed from wave crest to trough with every swell.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The sheriff reached out and grabbed her gunwale, all of them wallowing in the churning wakes.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018