wallow

Examples

• All

• It's that little piece we used to call "Buffalo Wallow."

  Giant (1956)

• I hoped I could find it; the night's snowfall had obliterated the fin-tracks and the muddy wallow.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Now it raised its head above the rim of the wallow and looked at the light.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The dog was in a dust wallow.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Several men in the yard were now on their hands and knees at the edge of the house, peering at the dog in the dust wallow.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A boy standing knee-deep in mud, watching a cow trying to struggle out of a muddy wallow.

  Academic text (2007)

• When they returned to the muddy buffalo wallow, there was no sign of Jocko DeSam.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Buffalo wallows, which usually hold the rankest sort of water, were caked and dry.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Which they did, sitting patiently in a dusty buffalo wallow, as though we were of no concern—which meant they had scrutinized us carefully and judged us harmless.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The road swung wide to avoid a sand wallow, its edges marked by frayed, once-red warning flags whose thin poles were bent into graceful arcs by the still-rising wind.

  Fiction book (1990)

Idioms

W

to wallow in the mire

1 9.9

To stay sad and think about problems instead of trying to fix them

How Muddy

mud bath

6 3.5

wallow

2 5.3

mudhole

1 1.3

puddle

80 1.0

wet

1 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology