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
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
There’s a scene in HeartBEAT called “The Pits,” this place where people are wallowing in misery.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2017
Straggling! why they are wallowing like hogs in the mud, Adjutant!
From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by William H. Armstrong
