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Example sentences for "wallowed"

Lexicographically close words:
walling; wallop; walloped; walloping; wallow; wallowing; wallows; wallpaper; wallpapers; walls
  1. If it had not been for those they could probably have been good comrades, sin moderately together, and love each other better than if they wallowed in the sty of the senses.

  2. He confessed to having wallowed in the elastic warmth of their intestines.

  3. But in spite of his popularity he never seems to have evaded responsibility and wallowed in debauchery, like the king.

  4. The car wallowed and snuffled out of the wash to come to a halt before several silhouettes of huts.

  5. He rolled; he slipped and wallowed against and under great boulders.

  6. The little desert skimmer bucked like a wild colt against the onslaught of the wind; but when the Doc dropped the engine into low the car wallowed on in the face of the gale.

  7. Throw all aside and come," said Eric, laying on to the oars, for the Raven wallowed before she sank.

  8. Then men made ready for the fray as best they might, and stood, sword in hand and drenched with foam, clinging to the bulwarks of the Gudruda as she wallowed through the seas.

  9. In the pool Fiery Nose wallowed and blew like a grampus, and howled for help.

  10. Dick raised the fish slowly, for it felt tremendously heavy, and when he had it on the surface it kicked and wallowed till you might have thought a dog was splashing in the water.

  11. So the White Pig rooted in the sunshine and wallowed in the warm brown earth that she had stirred up with her pink snout.

  12. Even lying under the bushes on the sunshiny side was not comfortable, and when he wallowed in the dust with his brothers and sisters he didn't enjoy that.

  13. On and on they lunged, they wallowed through the forest, half carrying, half dragging the sack which now seemed to have grown ten times heavier and which at every moment caught on bushes, on limbs and among the dense undergrowth.

  14. The fin-back is the biggest, fleetest, shyest whale of them all; until an ingenious Norwegian invented the harpoon gun, they wallowed and multiplied in the Newfoundland waters undisturbed.

  15. The old female wallowed a moment longer and dived with arched back.

  16. He found the deepest drift, augmented somewhat by Martin's shovel, and wallowed laboriously and happily through it.

  17. And as the sleigh wallowed near him, suddenly, with an immense scattering of snow and a startling roar, an old cock-partridge burst from beneath the surface of the snow and hurtled away through the frozen trees.

  18. All that afternoon the ship wallowed and plunged through the angry seas, her speed reduced until she had only enough to keep her head into the wind.

  19. A few minutes later the engines stopped, and as her steerage-way slackened the great vessel fell into the trough of the waves, where she rolled and wallowed in a helpless manner.

  20. I slipped and wallowed on my belly hanging on to the rope like grim death till my turn came for the ladder.

  21. We wallowed in the wash of a bar, and cranked by turns.

  22. As the days passed the seas became less turbulent but other ships in the convoy, merchant and naval alike could still be lost to sight as they wallowed in the troughs.

  23. Although the whale was exceedingly vigorous, churning the sea into yeasty foam over an enormous area, there we wallowed close to him, right in the middle of the turmoil, actually courting disaster.

  24. It was a fine chase while it lasted, though annoying; yet one could hardly help feeling amused at the way they wallowed along--just like a school of exaggerated porpoises.

  25. A large school of porpoises had just joined us, in their usual clownish fashion, rolling and tumbling around the bows as the old barky wallowed along, surrounded by a wide ellipse of snowy foam.

  26. Some wallowed on the ground kicking with pain, their lips covered with foam.

  27. It was just the sort of place any self-respecting brontosaurus would have wallowed in.

  28. A chicken coop wallowed by as the boy struggled with the knot of the painter which held the outboard.

  29. It rained hard and continuously all of the second day of our journey, and we wallowed through the slush, snow and water until about 11 o'clock p.

  30. They ran about, jumped up in to the air, scratched the earth and wallowed in the dirt, and had to all appearances a play-spell, full of joy.

  31. So every day he rolled and wallowed in the dirtiest places he could find; and by the appointed time he was like a big cake of dirt.

  32. He wallowed along the bank to a place just underneath a big tree.

  33. YET STILL WE RODE We wallowed deep in mud and sand; We swam swift streams that roared in wrath; They stood at guard in that lone land, Like dragons in the slender path.

  34. He had walked logs and wallowed through quicksands.

  35. The sails were torn to tatters by the tempest; the fury of the gale and the overwhelming rain forced the crews below, while the ships pitched and wallowed as they drove before the wind.

  36. The Blackbird wallowed down the moon-trail.

  37. The Bluebird continued to scuttle from one outlying point to another, and the Blanco wallowed down to Crow Harbor every other day with her hold crammed.

  38. The Blanco wallowed down to Crow Harbor with a load which represented to MacRae a dead loss of four hundred dollars cash.

  39. The sun reached the horizon and wallowed in the sea like a fat, round shining pig on fire.

  40. Before they reached the shore, the fat sun had wallowed itself out of sight into the sea.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.