wallow
verb (used without object)
to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment.
had been wallowing
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past perfect progressiveof wallow.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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A former Biden Cabinet secretary, state attorney general and longtime congressman from Los Angeles, Becerra had been wallowing in the low single-digits in public opinion polls less than three months ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
But our uncle, who had been wallowing in his misfortune for so long after losing his farm up north, isn’t wallowing anymore.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
So I continued on in hopes of getting a sight of the animals that had been wallowing.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
He was in reality beginning to believe that with her he might pull himself right out of this morass of weakness and indecision in which he had been wallowing for years.
From The Captives by Sir Hugh Walpole
He was miserably emaciated; his mane was all in tatters; his hide was bare and rough as an elephant's, and covered with dried patches of the mud in which he had been wallowing.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
