wallow
verb (used without object)
to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment.
are wallowing
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present progressiveof wallow.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Pointing the finger at "naysayers", and "blockers" whoever the people are who are wallowing in the tepid bath he described is a deliberate decision.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
“But I hope that even if I lost in this fight, my fellow Filipinos who are wallowing in poverty were a winner too.”
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022
People who “want to flee not just their homes but the reality of 2020” are wallowing in online home listings to daydream about alternate realities, my colleague Taylor Lorenz reported.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
However, you cannot do that singularly and not look back at those who are in front of your face every single day who are starving, who are wallowing in poverty.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2019
At home, superior wit she vaunts, And twits her husband with his wants; Her ragged offspring all around, Like pigs, are wallowing on the ground.
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore
