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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wallow.

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Examples

  • But just at this time a great mass of water advanced and wallowed clean over the wreck, carrying the wheelhouse away with it, and bursting, where it struck the masts and booms, into a cloud: it was too solid to burst much, but it just 'wallowed' over the wreck.

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

  • Where and why the bison "wallowed"; how beaver were to be trapped and wild turkeys stalked; the grizzly and how to handle him, and the

    Dream Days 1898

  • Where and why the bison "wallowed"; how beaver were to be trapped and wild turkeys stalked; the grizzly and how to handle him, and the pretty pressing ways of the constrictor, -- in fine, the haunts and the habits of all that burrowed, strutted, roared, or wriggled between the Atlantic and the Pacific, -- all this knowledge I took for my province.

    Dream Days 1898

  • Where and why the bison "wallowed"; how beaver were to be trapped and wild turkeys stalked; the grizzly and how to handle him, and the pretty pressing ways of the constrictor, -- in fine, the haunts and the habits of all that burrowed, strutted, roared, or wriggled between the Atlantic and the

    Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • "It kind of wallowed in his mouth," Benton said, "while he chewed on it."

    Top Stories | nashvillecitypaper.com 2010

  • When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The bad news is that The Losers also embraces the worst aspects of the action film since the genre's heyday during the 1980s, or if not its worst aspects, then its most derivative, using techniques that were groundbreaking when John Woo and Ringo Lam made their Hong Kong bulletfests but, since The Matrix, have wallowed in cliché.

    MOVIE REVIEW: The Losers (2010) 2010

  • For decades, Americans have wallowed in credit, shunned savings and delighted in debt.

    Spend It or Save It? Megan McArdle 2011

  • She wallowed in all of the attention, stacking catalogues of wedding dresses, samples of materials, pictures of hair styles, shoes, flower arrangements, dresses for bridesmaids, all of it in her room.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • My insecurity used to drive people away, but instead of introspecting and asking myself hard questions about how I presented myself, I just wallowed in self pity.

    Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing 2009

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