wallow
verb (used without object)
to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment.
is wallowing
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present progressiveof wallow (3rd person singular).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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Results are decent, and there is a rising cash balance, but the stock price is wallowing at less than half its 2007 high.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
For all the gloom that the media is wallowing in about the media, the situation is contradictory.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
What they do not believe in is wallowing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
That’s roughly one flight on average per day full of people with little prospect of eking out a subsistence in a country where the majority is wallowing in misery.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
"I do not see that we drop the stranger, though the ship is wallowing through the water so heavily," he commenced, determined to be as circumspect as possible in his advances.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
