Example Sentences

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And while those left showing aren’t exactly rejecting the whole sweatpants-and-PJs swamp so many of us have been wallowing in, they aren’t embracing it either.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020

I myself have been wallowing with great purpose and intensity; whenever the summer Olympics take place, if there is a new weep, pray and wallow event, I am fully prepared to represent these United States.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2020

The hand may be defiled by a touch of pitch; swine that have been wallowing in the mud are befouled.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

I have been wallowing in the slough of despond for a week and my digestive apparatus has gone wrong again.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason

Accordingly, I return to Callisthenes and Philistus, in whom I see that you have been wallowing.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.