wild-and-woolly
Example Sentences
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In sum, we are in for a wild and woolly constitutional ride over the next 16 days and perhaps beyond, and it’s difficult to know where or how it will end.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly newsletter about the most relevant figures in the wild and woolly world of Washington.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2023
The metaphorical flights grow especially wild and woolly in the book’s last lap.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2018
He’s unabashedly political in his aspirations for this program, attempting to define an American identity by interviewing its wild and woolly citizens.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2018
I guess the mayor had visions of sudden death at the hands of a wild and woolly Westerner—one of those 'dear Americanos whom he loved as a brother—and he came down like Davy Crockett's coon.
From Bert Wilson at Panama by Duffield, J. W.
