wildness
Example Sentences
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With Cape Cod emptied of wildness, maybe Thoreau’s “Cape Cod” is the only manual we have left.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
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
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
Lately, Mom never had time to do that, and Ivy certainly didn’t want Layla to do it, so now her hair was a coiling mane of wildness all the time.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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