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wallow - use in sentences
Object
- seal: Possibly visit vast penguin rookeries, land on beaches ruled by Antarctic fur seals or observe wallowing southern elephant seals.
Converse of object
- enjoy: These two games were played in the same tournament, and Short is enjoying a nostalgic wallow in past glories.
- have: Matt's birdwatching buddy, Daffyd, takes a closer look at an elephant seal, and the seals have a good wallow!
Adjective modifier
- muddy: In hot weather, a muddy wallow is essential, allowing the pigs to cool off.
- long: So I turned left and began the long wallow back along the forest edge.
- nostalgic: This in itself isn't a problem, of course - a simple nostalgic wallow through the archives is always welcome.
Modifying Another Word
- about: To me, it seemed like 4 episodes of the main characters wallowing about in self pity.
- just: Or am I just wallowing in the stupid romantic image of fabulous failure?
- still: Those still wallowing in the PC world may not be aware of a Macintosh application called iPhoto.
- n't: Here's a story that clearly does n't wallow in its own seriousness.
- not: Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
- now: Right now wallowing in self pity is better than sex.
Noun used with modifier
- mud: Sewer passage, once a tremendous mud wallow is a very clean passageway now.
Preposition: in
- self-pity: All of this might have held some people down, caused them to wallow away in self-pity.
- mire: However, the time to hesitate is through, no time to wallow in the mire.
- nostalgia: Tony Blair has remarked that his respect agenda is not meant to wallow in nostalgia for a lost golden age.
- pity: I am determined not to wallow in self pity / I just wish I had my life back.
- mud: This was of great appeal to Ruth, not having wallowed in mud for at least 48 hours.
- misery: What better way to spend a holiday, then, than wallowing in the misery of others?
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: We saw about 5 sting rays wallowing around in the shallow water, looked amazing.
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