wildness
Example Sentences
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With Cape Cod emptied of wildness, maybe Thoreau’s “Cape Cod” is the only manual we have left.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
To some extent, there was a time when such carefree wildness reigned.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025
Lean and athletic, with a wildness in his eyes, Ray displays the same antagonism as Day-Lewis’ Bill the Butcher from “Gangs of New York” or Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
She liked Ruth’s loyalty, her wildness, her desperation.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2024
Her wildness seems to have been exacerbated by the death of her brother, Ben, to whom she was very close.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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