wallow

Example Sentences

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But the ILO warned that efforts to improve global job quality had stagnated, leaving hundreds of millions of workers wallowing in poverty, even as trade uncertainty risked cutting into workers wages.

From Barron's

But I didn’t have a job to go to, and after wallowing in my own sweat for what seemed like hours, I pulled Paul’s crumbled comedy class ticket out of my jacket pocket.

From Salon

Results are decent, and there is a rising cash balance, but the stock price is wallowing at less than half its 2007 high.

From Barron's

I remember mourning Grandma’s passing, wallowing in my sadness, only to come to Asamando and meet Ama—and to have her claim to be Grandma.

From Literature

Yet hearing news of others’ deliveries left me wallowing in a puddle of jealousy.

From The Wall Street Journal