Sample Sentences for
wallow
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wallow as in:  wallow happily in the mud

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    The hippo wallowed in the muddy water.
    wallowed = relaxed
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    Ah'm plumb wore out and hungry as a wallow-hog.  (source)
    wallow = related to a mud puddle that animals relax in
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    He would like to have a bath, a proper wallow with soap.  (source)
    wallow = to relax in shallow water
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    Outside, the building was picturesque; inside, Phil wrote, it looked "like a dozen dirty Missouri pigs have been wallowing on it."  (source)
    wallowing = rolling around in the mud
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    I wallowed in every aspect of the new reality.†  (source)
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    People caught hookworms going barefooted in barnyards and hog wallows.  (source)
    wallows = mud puddles
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    It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.  (source)
    wallow = relax
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    *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)
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    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)
    wallowing = relaxing
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    She was just really bitter and hopeless, and she wallowed in that hopelessness.†  (source)
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    ...or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.  (source)
    wallows = mud puddles
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    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)
    wallow = relax
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    Don't think I'm only a brute in an officer's uniform, wallowing in dirt and drink.  (source)
    wallowing = relaxing
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wallow as in:  wallow in self-pity

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    Don't wallow in your insecurities. Overcome them.
    wallow = indulge
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    But they don't have to go to the courthouse and wallow in it-  (source)
    wallow = indulge (get overly involved)
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    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)
    wallow = indulge (enjoy spending time)
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    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)
    wallow = indulge (enjoy spending time)
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    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)
    wallowed = indulged in self-pity
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    All of his life he had squandered his choices, wallowing in revenge and self-pity, keeping himself down.  (source)
    wallowing = indulging (making no attempt to move beyond the negative feelings)
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    Often, we wallow too much in ghamkhori and self-pity.  (source)
    wallow = indulge
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    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)
    wallowed = indulged in self-pity
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    I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.  (source)
    wallowing = indulging or enjoying
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    They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —  (source)
    wallow = indulge in an emotion or situation
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    I wallowed in words. There was no end to them.  (source)
    wallowed = indulged (excessively enjoyed)
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    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)
    wallow = indulge
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    You just like to wallow in your despair, you fools!†  (source)
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wallow as in:  a wagon wallowed through the mud

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The tractor wallowed through the mud.
wallowed = moved with difficulty
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    We made poor time as we wallowed through the mud.
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    This caused the plane to slow dramatically and almost seem to stop and wallow in the air.  (source)
    wallow = move with difficulty
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    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)
    wallowed = moved down in the mud
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    They maneuvered even closer until the boat wallowed next to Tate, sloshing water up his thighs.  (source)
    wallowed = rolled up and down on the waves
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    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)
    wallowing = moving with difficulty (perhaps rolling with the waves, unable to move itself)
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    The heavy load of supplies caused the skiff to wallow through the waves.  (source)
    wallow = move with difficulty
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    The Ginnie Paul wallowed like the broad-beamed matron she was.  (source)
    wallowed = moved with difficulty
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    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)
    wallowing = moving with difficulty
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    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)
    wallowed = moved with difficulty
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    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)
    wallowing = moving with difficulty
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    The wind had risen some and the old vessel wallowed from wave crest to trough with every swell.  (source)
    wallowed = moved with difficulty
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    The sheriff reached out and grabbed her gunwale, all of them wallowing in the churning wakes.  (source)
    wallowing = rolling up and down
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    He dropped the net at his feet, left the boat wallowing against the pier, and walked directly to the courthouse.  (source)
    wallowing = rolling up and down from waves
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