WILD in a Sentence
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282 example sentences for WILD, such as:
1. I've never seen a finer wild animal.
2. Another wild thought tore through him.
3. The audience burst into wild applause.
4. He took a wild step forward and then stopped.
5. He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
2. Another wild thought tore through him.
3. The audience burst into wild applause.
4. He took a wild step forward and then stopped.
5. He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of WILD
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wild
a. in a state of extreme emotion
a. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Another wild thought tore through him.
2 He took a wild step forward and then stopped.
3 The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
4 She had cast down her eyes demurely, her heart beating with wild pleasure, thinking the happy moment had come.
5 A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
6 There was a faint wild fragrance of sweet shrub on the breeze and the world smelled good enough to eat.
7 Charles was not excited over the prospect of marrying her, for she stirred in him none of the emotions of wild romance that his beloved books had assured him were proper for a lover.
8 Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement.
9 Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
10 She looked so strangely, and there was a wild beauty about her white face that set his heart leaping.
11 The night before had been wild and wet with rain, but when Scarlett arrived in Atlanta a warm sun was at work, bravely attempting to dry the streets that were winding rivers of red mud.
12 In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
13 He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion, and wore clothes which were always the height of style and tailoring.
14 With the rise in prices, Confederate money sank, and with its rapid fall there rose a wild passion for luxuries.
15 In her top drawer was a handkerchief just like this, one that Rhett Butler had lent her only yesterday to wrap about the stems of wild flowers they had picked.
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1 The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood.
2 Beautiful butterflies hovered above the wild flowers.
3 The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass.
4 The zebra is a wild African horse with black and white stripes.
5 The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance.
6 The howling of wild animals kept him awake night after night.
7 The plants grow wild along the banks of rivers.
8 It's a great feeling when a wild animal shows you affection.
9 I've never seen a finer wild animal.
10 The audience burst into wild applause.
11 Modern farming methods have led to the total extinction of many species of wild flowers.
12 He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
13 The investigation uncovered evidence of a large-scale illegal trade in wild birds.
14 Scotland's wild salmon population is in danger of being overwhelmed by the farmed variety.
15 Goodall was studying the behavior of chimpanzees in the wild.