How to Use wallow in a Sentence

wallow

1 of 2 verb
  • Buffalo wallow in mud to keep away flies.
  • But there’s no sense in wallowing in pro sports.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t wallow in self-pity and stare into the abyss.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • One swallow doesn’t wallow in mud till a pig in a poke takes flight.
    — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Turn to your closest besties and wallow in the dreams of the good old days .
    — Ayrika L Whitney, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • The slough was wallowing with carp.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • That being said, the season does not wallow in grief there.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Garbage is often left to wallow in giant pits away from tourists’ eyes.
    — Benjamin Lowy, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • This sedan rides softly, but there is less float and wallow than its size suggests.
    — Phil Berg, Car and Driver, 8 June 2020
  • The challenge is to take that low and turn it around to a high or else wallow in the adverse effects.
    — Maria Minor, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Donald of Deliria is wallowing in brute force.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The rest of my family soon followed him, leaving me to wallow alone.
    — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Not to wallow, or gnash my teeth, or cry woe and sadness about the whole situation.
    — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • There are some sad ironies stitched into the plot, and an upsetting late twist, though the show doesn’t wallow in it.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
  • His loyal customers didn’t let Lycke wallow in self-pity for long.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Daisy's son, who has not yet been named, will learn how to forage and wallow from his entire family.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • The bull had already charged a group of teenagers before stopping to wallow in the dirt near the campground.
    — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
  • Sometimes the bears stopped feasting, and simply wallowed in the water.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • No time to wallow in the loss to Antioch with a trip to Lakes awaiting.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Anything that puts me closer to a bull elk is worthy of my attention, and wallows do just that.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • To wallow in these texts is to better understand how Italians used to live.
    — Mike McCahill, Variety, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The kids scattered, and the bison eventually stopped to wallow in a patch of dirt.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • Reveling or wallowing in either part of the game only slows the process.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Most like to be clean, although wallowing in the mud does help keep them cool and protected from insects and the sun.
    — Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
  • Porter says the purpose of the film isn't to wallow in past suffering, but to understand its origins.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2021
  • Kelleher has produced a work racked with guilt, that manages not to wallow, but, instead, to spin around and try again to do better.
    — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This movie doesn’t wallow in predictability.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The episodes seemed to wallow in Carmy’s misery, along with the frustrations of everyone around him.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 June 2026
  • Now, Daphne is living with Petra’s ex Miles, both wallowing in their own breakup hell.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, Friday was the first day in the past six on which our low temperature did not wallow in the 40s.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022

wallow

2 of 2 noun
  • Sometimes a good wallow in good company is just the thing.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Knowing where wallows are helps pinpoint places being used by bulls.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Bowhunters often either build a tree stand near a wallow or use a portable stand.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Queenie leans towards the tragic end of things, but never in a way that feels like a wallow.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
  • The animal had been just leaving the wallow with a fresh coat of mud on when my buddy had spotted him.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Come join me and the rest of the downtown piggies in the warm, muddy wallow of Barry’s.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 June 2022
  • For me, fall evokes a kind of present-tense nostalgia — a wallow in fleetingness, perhaps.
    — Bruce Handy, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Elk tracks were distinctly imprinted in the bottom of the wallow.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • One wakes up in the morning, wallows in grievance, and proceeds to spend the day railing against the evils of privilege.
    — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The wallow was in a limited-entry hunting unit that required a hunter to obtain a tag in a lottery draw.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • According to Geist, a bull will dig a wallow with his front feet, bugling and tearing at the ground with his antlers while digging.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Sometimes, when all lighter diversions have failed, what a person who’s been in confinement needs is a wallow in the pitch-black mud.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 May 2020
  • The baby elephant, nicknamed Happy, was trying to reach the wallow for a drink and a swim with his family.
    — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 7 June 2018
  • Most are pointless wallows in the suffering of others, real or fictional.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Creek bottoms, especially those dammed by beavers, often are good wallow locations.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • On the question of wallows, many people have no idea of their importance, although most report seeing wallows while hunting.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The driver-narrator brought us slowly towards a herd of buffalo relaxing in their dusty wallow.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Brisk, brusque Beethoven has, in fact, become the norm, as predictable as the old Wagnerian wallow.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Fewer pigs likely means fewer muddy wallows, for instance, which are important breeding grounds for Bornean tree frogs.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The hogs cause erosion and create wallows that collect water and serve as breeding areas for mosquitoes, Aplaca said.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2020
  • There are Grevy's zebras, elands, stolid buffaloes in a dry wallow—and always Mount Kenya, piled high with clouds just now, like curls of meringue.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • Because wallowing usually occurs when temperatures are high, bowhunters who try for elk in the late summer can set up stands near active wallows.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, the bull directs a spray of urine onto the underside of his neck and then rolls about in the wallow after it is dug, continuing to urinate in the wallow.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In Seoul, a shuttered restaurant wallows in an ordinarily bustling market.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The area is very secluded and bulls like to go to the meadow for a big drink and a refreshing splash in the wallow during midday, while their harem is sleeping off a night of debauchery.
    — Outdoor Life, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Feral hogs, descendants of domestic pigs, also rip up wetlands, turning them into muddy wallows.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The prospect of another long wallow in the misery of Harry Hope's saloon should give even the most intrepid theatergoer pause.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • Those areas, however, are often in lowlands or arid locations where dirt habitat conditions prevent elk from digging wallows.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The trip was worth it, though, as a fresh wallow was located just 10 yards from the trees, and the size of the elk tracks in the area convinced me that the wallow was worthy of special attention.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Form following subject, the Discovery+ program is a sleazy wallow dressed up with some undeniably worthwhile elements.
    — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022

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