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.

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 Meanings and Examples of WALLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  The regiment slid down a bank and wallowed across a little stream.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
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
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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
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.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
8  Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
13  I came upon a boiler wallowing in the grass, then found a path leading up the hill.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
14  Here Earth's ancient children, the Titans' brood, hurled down by the thunderbolt, lie wallowing in the abyss.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
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.