| The fish wallowed, then made a determined run, peeling yards of line from the light drag. |
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| In addition to self-denunciation, they wallowed in orgies of accusation against others. |
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| There was a time when those young designers wallowed in grunge and everything was mad avant-garde. |
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| She wallowed in self-pity for what seemed like hours, but after a while that sadness turned to anger. |
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| But he never wallowed in self pity, and rather spent every available moment with his nose stuck deep in his books. |
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| The ship wallowed through waves up to 30 feet high in the treacherous Drake's Passage. |
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| Given the history of countries that have wallowed in civil strife, things will never be the same in Ivory Coast. |
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| Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness. |
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| The disaster occurred at a time of year when we have just wallowed in a shameful orgy of over-indulgence and conspicuous consumption. |
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| Brendan closeted himself in his office for the rest of the day and wallowed in his misery. |
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| Not being a sailing vessel, our motor boat rolled and wallowed slowly with every wave. |
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| But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed. |
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| After his death, Aleppo wallowed for two centuries in a state of anarchy and confusion. |
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| Fussy Felix is a neat-freak whose wife has just thrown him out of their house, and Oscar is a placid slob who has wallowed in his pigsty apartment ever since his divorce. |
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| As the rest of the world marched towards scientific orientation and professionalism, India wallowed in a whirlpool of politics, polemics and puerile prejudices. |
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| I choked on my croissant at the lurid accounts in the New York Times, which positively wallowed in the story. |
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| Millions more have wallowed in the break-up of Arnold Schwarzenegger's marriage after revelations that he fathered a son with a maid. |
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| Not defence contractors, the most likely beneficiaries, whose shares have wallowed for months. |
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| The train jogged while buffalo wallowed, among a parliament of bright white egrets. |
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| I wallowed in bindings and leathers and fonts, in all the lovely jargon of the trade, half-titles, colophons, blind stamping, foxing, black letter, washed leaves and cancels. |
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| Yet even as the Germans wallowed in bitter self-pity, another defeated superpower underwent a dramatic turnaround. |
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| The bloodshot water wallowed and surged, There were loathsome upthrows and overturnings Of waves and gore and wound-slurry. |
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| She was also, later critics charged, a parvenue who wallowed in a life of wretched excess that she financed by catering to her customers' sense of racial inferiority. |
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| This is why, while the Britain of the early Seventies wallowed in The Faces and Free, and America in Creedence and Skynyrd, West Germany gave us Kraftwerk. |
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| The banks and corporations wallowed and grew fat on the proceeds, spreading their net, destroying as they went, unconcerned of the result their inroads made on the environment. |
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| Believe you me, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the other members of the class. But I happily wallowed in my slanhood. |
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| The chickens and dogs were making free of the galleries, and the hogs wallowed in peaceful immunity underneath. |
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