Below you will find example sentences with "wild west". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Wild West in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: wild
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 22.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "wild west" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 22.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as the wild wild west, actually remember wild west days from, days, long and movie stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with west berlin, west coast, west virginia, wild card, wild boar and wild pitch, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with wild west
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
It was sort of the wild, wild west. (8 words)
No posts from that godawful Wild Wild West movie yet? (10 words)
And they called the wild west the “Wild West” for a reason. (12 words)
Kevin Costner’s The Westactor, who has a penchant for all things old-timey, as he takes audiences on a journey of how the Wild West came to be and how decisions made in those days have left their mark on the United States as we know it today. (49 words)
In the latest in a string of incidents, a mass gathering in the heart of Bradford erupted into “wild west” carnage on Tuesday night, with police coming under attack from rampaging thugs. (32 words)
Aunty rules a desert trading post called Bartertown, a post-apocalyptic community emulative of the wild west, where civilization perseveres by harvesting methane for energy and justice is served through violence. (31 words)
No posts from that godawful Wild Wild West movie yet? (10 words)
Wild West Days has been a tradition for so many years, that I actually remember "Wild West Days" from my childhood, and that was a long time ago! (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Wild West Days has been a tradition for so many years, that I actually remember "Wild West Days" from my childhood, and that was a long time ago!
And they called the wild west the “Wild West” for a reason.
But even though set the tone for his career, his first significant movie role was far from the wild, wild west.
As Skip Bayless lives out his final days on FS1, might be turning into the wild wild west of sports TV shows.
This year's theme was "Bacchus's Wild, Wild West" and it was led by 1,600 riders.
No posts from that godawful Wild Wild West movie yet?
It was sort of the wild, wild west.
The Wild Wild West Casino at Bally’s just got a little wilder, as the resort became the third Atlantic City property to accept sports betting.
This soured political feud led to a spiral of political bellicosity and Cartesian maneuver, which plunged the whole of the Western region into anarchical entropy (The Wild, Wild West).
Two reunion telemovies were screened in 1979 and 1980, followed by the film Wild Wild West (above).
Also “financial coach” is a bit of a Wild West on social media — I found 60 financial coach accounts on Instagram and a bigger number on Twitter.
Aunty rules a desert trading post called Bartertown, a post-apocalyptic community emulative of the wild west, where civilization perseveres by harvesting methane for energy and justice is served through violence.
Authentic re-enactments of Wild West scenes and well-known people including Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill along with Native American dancers are all part of the show.
But I always knew that this was a make-believe story about the 1860s in the Wild West and unlike today.
Fraser, now dead, once recalled: “Down south, we viewed Glasgow as the Wild West.
In the latest in a string of incidents, a mass gathering in the heart of Bradford erupted into “wild west” carnage on Tuesday night, with police coming under attack from rampaging thugs.
In the Wild West, frontiersmen were so sex-starved that just to see a pair of women's underwear.
Kevin Costner’s The Westactor, who has a penchant for all things old-timey, as he takes audiences on a journey of how the Wild West came to be and how decisions made in those days have left their mark on the United States as we know it today.
Most LANs are wild west, with access granted to anyone (like, perhaps, the boyfriend of the employee’s teen-age daughter).
Now the imagination travels to a time long before the Wild West.