wildness
Example Sentences
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How, where and when they lost their wildness and developed close bonds with humans has long puzzled scientists.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025
To some extent, there was a time when such carefree wildness reigned.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025
Taste in gardens and landscapes tilted from love of picturesque nature inhabited by people and animals towards sublime Romantic wildness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Lean and athletic, with a wildness in his eyes, Ray displays the same antagonism as Day-Lewis’ Bill the Butcher from “Gangs of New York” or Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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