Wallowing is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wallowing meaning
present participle and gerund of wallow
Using Wallowing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of wallow
- In the example corpus, wallowing often appears in combinations such as: wallowing in, are wallowing, and wallowing.
Context around Wallowing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wallowing
- In this selection, "wallowing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pens, earth, regressive, too and solely stand out and add context to how "wallowing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a nation wallowing in it and and that wallowing in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wallowing" sits close to words such as abominable, acolytes and acv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wallowing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But that doesn’t mean wallowing, solely, in despair. (9 words)
Cameron told me to stop wallowing and start exploring. (9 words)
A nation wallowing in it's sins of the past. (10 words)
That bears repeating: The Heat, a mere months after wallowing in salary cap purgatory, handcuffed to old and injured players, now has the best young crop of up-and-coming players in the NBA. (34 words)
Almost exactly a year ago, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history told the story of a nation chained by mediocrity, going nowhere fast and wallowing in a low-growth mire. (32 words)
As Campbell celebrates her victory, she wishes to implore others who are wallowing in their setbacks to “arise” and turn these setbacks into “comebacks”, further using them as stepping stones to success. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Almost exactly a year ago, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history told the story of a nation chained by mediocrity, going nowhere fast and wallowing in a low-growth mire.
Animal welfare advocates would be happy to see fewer animals packed into tight pens wallowing in their own poop awaiting slaughter.
As Campbell celebrates her victory, she wishes to implore others who are wallowing in their setbacks to “arise” and turn these setbacks into “comebacks”, further using them as stepping stones to success.
As Ripley rockets into a new stratosphere, poor Mysterio remains stuck on Earth, wallowing with the snakes in a pit of defeat.
It finds Scrooge McDuck at play in his binful of money, diving and wallowing in it, doing what he likes best.
It keeps us from wallowing too deeply, and encourages us to continue to aspire for more than simple material excess.
Jokes in this country will never end, people are wallowing in poverty and even worse off than in the previous regime and the writer and some misled are here doing politics.
Now, this Cold War’s weird, ‘cause, up to the seventies, China was wallowing in poverty like the rest of us that they call the “Third World”.
Stroud said he isn’t worried about the team and that wallowing in the loss won’t help anything.
The Republican Party, fossilized, regressive, wallowing in lazy bigotry, is pointed to the past.
Will van de Pol, chief executive of environmental advocacy group Market Forces, said big investors were "wallowing in greenwash and failing to live up to their climate claims".
But that doesn’t mean wallowing, solely, in despair.
Guru Dutt’s self-defeatist masterpiece, Pyaasa set the gold standard for the ‘wallowing in self-misery’ genre.
She humanizes the emotions we tend to avoid thinking about, recognizing their importance and their value without wallowing.
This widespread problem is only made worse by cattle wallowing in shallow streams and rivers, crushing the eggs themselves.
When I saw politicians cheering the antitrust lawsuit against Google, I wondered if they should be wallowing in shame instead.
Zimbabweans are wallowing under a debilitating political and economic crisis and are looking up to the MDC’s competent leadership for direction.
A nation wallowing in it's sins of the past.
Cameron told me to stop wallowing and start exploring.
That bears repeating: The Heat, a mere months after wallowing in salary cap purgatory, handcuffed to old and injured players, now has the best young crop of up-and-coming players in the NBA.
Common combinations with wallowing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wallowing in 29×
- are wallowing 6×
- and wallowing 4×
- be wallowing 3×
- cattle wallowing 2×
- after wallowing 2×