Example Sentences

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While the bison do help keep back some of the invasive grasses, Dennhardt explains that they create wallows and cause erosion.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024

Large herbivores such as Cape buffalo and red deer make temporary pools by creating wallows, which also interrupt wildfires.

From Scientific American • Sep. 9, 2023

Elsewhere, traders are keeping a watchful eye on any signs of a possible intervention from Japanese authorities as the yen wallows near a nine-month low against the dollar.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

For a culture that wallows in sports metaphors, we seem to have forgotten a basic truth: if you’re going to play, you’re going to lose sometimes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

I see my wilderness home muddy with wallows and stippled with pig bristles.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George