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Example sentences for "wild thing"

  • Belle's hands came to her heart for a little, and then her arms were round Dan like a wild thing.

  • Finally, when she went out to the pump for a pitcher of water, she set the pitcher down, and sped to the orchard like a wild thing.

  • It seemed to her that if she said anything, and especially anything congratulatory about Robert Lloyd, she would fly at her like a wild thing.

  • One day she decided that it was better to be a wild thing in the lovely marshes, than to have a soul that cried for beautiful things and found not one.

  • I am a Wild Thing, and have found a soul in the marshes, and we are kin to the Elf-folk.

  • Every bar struck a different section of the man's body: his lantern fell with a clatter, his handcuffs with a tinkle, and he himself was hurled heavily into the road, along which Harry was scampering like a wild thing.

  • I do not think I should have done such a wild thing in my sane senses, but I am altogether beside myself.

  • I do not think I should have done such a wild thing in my sane senses--and yet these men are so sure!

  • When it cleared the yacht was tugging like a wild thing at its anchor.

  • But, once in his arms, she seemed like a wild thing, resisting.

  • This time Tom had her, struggling like a wild thing in his arms, and kissing her black hair madly.

  • She merely stood there, the old telescope satchel she carried gripped tight in her hand, her great eyes, wide and soft as those of a wild thing, staring out into the now rapidly accumulating rabble; merely stared and waited.

  • Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, what do you want?

  • Then the Woman picked up a roasted mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog, and said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, taste and try.

  • Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods what do you want?

  • The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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