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Example sentences for "wildly"

Lexicographically close words:
wildflower; wildflowers; wildfowl; wildings; wildlife; wildness; wildon; wilds; wildwood; wile
  1. Tweedledum, beginning to stamp about wildly and tear his hair.

  2. As she said the words the brooch flew open, and the Queen clutched wildly at it, and tried to clasp it again.

  3. Her heart stood still for a few moments as she listened, then beat wildly with renewed hope.

  4. She flung her arms wildly about Sister Agnes's neck and buried her face in the ample bosom.

  5. Just three minutes afterward there was a whoop, and an excited fat boy came skipping off the deck of the speed boat, waving something wildly above his head.

  6. The Tramp was soon headed for the spot where they could see their comrades waving their arms wildly as if afraid the second boat in the race might pass them by.

  7. And as Jack sprang hurriedly to his feet, snatching up the handy Marlin gun, he saw Jimmie leaping toward him, wildly waving his arms like flails.

  8. All about the house itself there stood chestnut trees, and gnarled big rosebushes, growing wildly after a fashion of their own, just as lilac bushes would grow elsewhere.

  9. She was weeping wildly and tearing her amber necklace, trying, in fact, to throttle herself by means of it, and stamping on the scattered beads on the ground.

  10. England and her king were by this time wildly anxious that the prince should return.

  11. She struck wildly at the circling beetles, laughing like a child when she had caught one of them in her hand.

  12. Windy, unable to rise, struck out wildly and helplessly with his feet.

  13. A third knock was followed by a fourth, and then a distressed voice upstairs was heard calling wildly upon the name of Bella.

  14. Panting wildly she heard him coming closer and closer, and she was just about to give up when, to her joy, she saw her father coming towards them.

  15. In the pitcher's box he puzzled the Porcupines till they grew desperate and hit wildly and blindly, amid the jeers of the spectators.

  16. It meant a limitation of freedom in their wildly reckless living.

  17. And further, could it be the actual fact, as he had been wildly guessing only a few minutes earlier, that his aunt had at last missed the notes?

  18. But at the same time she was wildly glad.

  19. But I caught up a chair and used it for a shield, while he capered about, striking wildly and swearing most horribly.

  20. And our men do not shriek and scream so wildly as the negroes, who are an ignorant people and have never learned the least self-restraint.

  21. She finished her comments, standing up and swaying wildly from side to side, till somebody from the rear jabbed her shoulders with an umbrella point, loudly commanding: "Down front!

  22. Out in the snowy dimness, half revealed Like ghosts in glimpsing moonshine, wildly run The children in bewildering delight.

  23. Breathless, dazed, Francesco saw them move away, the blood throbbing wildly in his temples.

  24. Francesco rose and came forward, his knees shaking, with wildly beating heart.

  25. A strange sensation, as of something leaping up from his heart to his brain, turned his head wildly giddy.

  26. He was down on his knees, hotly and wildly at work, when Midwinter looked in on him; and was fast reducing the neat little world of the cabin to its original elements of chaos, with a misdirected energy wonderful to see.

  27. On the left hand rose the craggy sides of the Islet of the Calf, here rent wildly into deep black chasms, there lying low under long sweeping acclivities of grass and heath.

  28. She felt over the wall with both hands, wildly and clumsily, for the button which she had seen the doctor press when he was showing the room to the visitors.

  29. The breeze sent by Our Lady of Utrera rose to a gale, then to a furious tempest; and the grateful Adelantado saw through rack and mist the ships of his enemy tossed wildly among the raging waters as they struggled to gain an offing.

  30. There were fears and doubts and murmurings, but Menendez was desperate; not with the mad desperation that strikes wildly and at random, but the still white heat that melts and burns and seethes with a steady, unquenchable fierceness.

  31. He blew the alarm, and at the summons a few half-naked soldiers ran wildly out of the barracks.

  32. Lyle retreated a few steps, and then paused, looking wildly about her, dreading, expecting, she scarcely knew what.

  33. Under the big, blond mustache of the Englishman, a pair of lips curled scornfully, and his eyes rolled wildly for a moment, but that was all.

  34. Lyle was pale with excitement, but calmly and bravely took her place as head of the strangely assorted household, her heart throbbing wildly as she anticipated the meeting with Mr. Cameron.

  35. And while I was splashing in the pool, a franklin came running from his field with his hoe, waving wildly to me.

  36. And I suppose we were seen at the same time against the white water; for there came a yell from behind us, and the hoofs which followed us trampled wildly after us.

  37. But he did not answer them, for he knew that they spoke wildly as yet in the new terror which had broken their sleep.

  38. He has passed into the guest hall," said one of the Mercians, looking round him wildly enough.

  39. Bracy's lips moved, but no sound was heard, and his eyes looked wildly pathetic in their expression.

  40. Poor Gedge stood with his hands clasped to his forehead, staring wildly before him.

  41. Bracy dashed forward, forcing his way past the two men, his heart beating wildly as he reached the spot from whence the sound came.

  42. Bracy's lips moved, and an anxious expression came over his face; but he said nothing, only looked wildly from one to the other.

  43. Bracy, as in the wild flush of excitement that flashed through his brain it seemed as if he had received a galvanic shock, and he sat right up in his bed, to keep in that position, gazing wildly towards the darkened window.

  44. English rifles, and one more dropped in his track, while another sprang wildly in advance for a few yards, before pitching forward upon his face and lying still.

  45. In the ruined caldron where red fire and black smoke wildly mingled, blue water lies in repose.

  46. She was bathed in a cold perspiration, and clutched wildly at the coverlet with both hands.

  47. Zorka grew tired of the sad, melancholy song, and began to dance wildly and passionately.

  48. Looking wildly round in bewilderment, she seemed to be wondering where she was and how she had come there.

  49. The rabble becomes wildly excited at seeing me emerge with the bicycle, in company with the Caimacan and his staff, for they know that their curiosity is probably on the eve of being gratified.

  50. The mehana is crowded by a wildly gesticulating and loudly commenting and arguing crowd of Turks and Christians all the evening.

  51. Seeing the bicycle glistening in the sunlight as I ride along, horsemen come wildly galloping from villages miles away.

  52. Her two hopeful sons are engaged in a drinking bout of arrack; they are already wildly hilarious and indulging in brotherly embraces and doubtful love-songs.

  53. A troop of wild bronchos, startled and stampeded by the vivid lightning and sharp peals of thunder, come wildly charging down the mountain trail, threatening to run quite over me in their mad career.

  54. The strange apparition observed descending from the summit of the boundary attracts universal attention; I can hear them calling out to each other, and can see horsemen come wildly galloping from every direction.

  55. The firing and the shouting produce a truly magical effect upon a blood-thirsty youngster of ten or twelve summers; he becomes wildly hilarious, gamboling about the tent, and rolling over and kicking up his heels.

  56. The bullet must have singed him a little though, for, instead of wildly scooting for the brush, as I anticipated, he turns savagely round and comes bounding rapidly toward me, and at twenty paces crouches for a spring.

  57. At first Odette had taken a large Spanish knife in her hand, playing with it to hide her nervousness somewhat; but it dropped from her fingers, and she sat quiet, staring at vacancy, trying to control her wildly beating heart.

  58. I carry in my heart a love as deep, as wildly passionate, as yours.

  59. Wildly happy, the exhausted boy flung himself down on the wet planks, and yielded to pleasant reflections.

  60. He barked as long as his voice held out, and jumped up on every one, and tore wildly about the room until his chain fastened itself to a table leg.

  61. The child was in a great passion: she struck wildly at the nurse, and screamed aloud, so that her mother came running to see what was the matter.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wildly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carelessly; desperately; fast; frantically; furiously; hardly; hastily; head; headfirst; headlong; heedlessly; hotly; impetuously; mad; madly; recklessly; rigorously; vengeance; violently; wildly