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, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To wallow in these texts is to better understand how Italians used to live.
    — Mike McCahill, Variety, 2 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Most like to be clean, although wallowing in the mud does help keep them cool and protected from insects and the sun.
    — Eric Adler april 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 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
  • San Diego can wallow in the bliss of swinging a wrecking ball through the Dodgers, but not the team that represents it.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Biden, meanwhile, has been wallowing in the Washington swamp for more than 50 years.
    — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024

wallow

2 of 2 noun
  • Sometimes a good wallow in good company is just the thing.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most are pointless wallows in the suffering of others, real or fictional.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Large herbivores such as Cape buffalo and red deer make temporary pools by creating wallows, which also interrupt wildfires.
    — Curtis Abraham, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
  • These depressions can provide a habitat for ground-nesting birds and insects, and spring rains can fill the wallows with water, creating temporary ponds that are home to frogs and other amphibians.
    — Mark Tutton, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • At some point, the water level rose, burying the wallow in sediment, and preserving this priceless fecal Pompeii for posterity.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The Ghost's pillowy initial response to a bump feels as if it will be followed by the wallow of a '60s land yacht, but the air springs and adaptive dampers arrest the seemingly inevitable counter heave.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Getting there, however, makes for an entertaining wallow in bad relationship advice from Daphne du Maurier.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • But somehow, thanks to some bold steering, ingenious staging and a potent humanity — especially in depicting the calmness that creating art gives Petrov — the movie never feels like a pitiful wallow.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Late in his tenure as New Jersey’s governor, the onetime political rock star was reduced to an almost defiant wallow after becoming the most unpopular governor in the history of the state.
    — Carrie Dann, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017

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