wallow

Example Sentences

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Having lost their World Cup play-off semi-finals against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy respectively five days earlier, given the choice, Wales and Northern Ireland would probably have had the night off to wallow.

From BBC

“And it’s going to, for a long while. But day by day, step by step, we’ll carry on. She wouldn’t want us to wallow. She’d want us to live and be happy.”

From Literature

A published poet, Cummins writes daily, and as he describes it, that means he is sometimes “wallowing in nostalgia” or “angsting over the future.”

From Los Angeles Times

This is the kind of art that would find a suitable home in a crypto king’s Miami mansion, and whose pretense of depth can’t conceal its wallowing in the shallows.

From The Wall Street Journal

They’d spend their days at leisure in the hog wallow and nest in dry leaves by night.

From Literature