wild for
Example Sentences
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The crowd at the Indio festival, for instance, went wild for the puppets swooning to Ben Platt’s cover of Addison Rae’s hit tune “Diet Pepsi.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Due to the conservation effort an adult fly seen in 2022 was the first to be spotted in the wild for a decade.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Home in the wild for the small Silvery Gibbon is the rainforests of Java in Indonesia.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
While visiting Israel with his granddaughters in 2017, he noticed they were going wild for flow ring bracelets that looked like slinkies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
The store’s power had been shut off some time ago, and it was clear it had been open to the wild for too long.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
