How To Use Wild In A Sentence

The popular beauty spot is home to a variety of wildlife including birds and types of bats.
Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
Think roast partridge with wild mushrooms followed by a little pot of chocolate rosemary.
Such changeable weather can pose problems for wildlife. Times, Sunday Times

Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb. Diary
Simply inserting the word "conservation" in the pesticide label and slightly watering down the percentage of the active ingredient, brodifacoum, does not make this rodenticide safe for wildlife, nor will it make it any less persistent. Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Watching Supplies stock a wide range of materials, olive green or camouflage pattern, lightweight, medium and heavy weight, showerproofed polycotton and waterproof nylon.
On a sunny summer day one can be overwhelmed by the abundance of the wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
The bird became so tame that it was impossible to release it back into the wild.
The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
So who is to blame -- hunters, wildlife managers, hikers, developers?
The cake won and the news spread like wildfire. Times, Sunday Times
Lia was looking around her shoulder, as if she was expecting a stampede of wild animals to come charging down the corner.
Beyond affecting the humans and wildlife that call the area home, the Arctic's warmer temperatures and decreases in permafrost, snow cover, glaciers and sea ice also have wide-ranging consequences for the physical and biological systems in other parts of the world. Arctic is warming, NOAA report says
A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing.
We do learn that Olive was wild and independent, refusing to live as a shy ingénue.
For a long time I daren't tell him I knew, and when I did he went wild.
Outdoor or extensively reared pigs that may be exposed to wildlife are at a greater risk of contracting trichinellosis from wildlife sources (6). ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds
The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
The exotic flowers we crossbred on the farm never lasted as long as the wild ones which grew naturally.
The land was wild and empty, but there always seemed to be a human shape lurking in the tunnels.
After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild. The Adventure of Living
Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree. One River
He signed his works with a wild strawberry. Times, Sunday Times
It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
The lead found in captive condors and released condors with low levels in their blood had isotope ratios similar to lead found in dead livestock and wildlife that had not been killed by hunters.
A wild beast does not at once become tame, or a new breed arise in an instant.
Wild silk or tussah comes from a wild species of moth, usually the tussah silkworm. HOME COMFORTS
Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity. From This Beloved Hour
The human population in the region is expanding in inverse proportion to the wildlife.
In the wild there is no piste patrol to pick up the pieces, and the mountains bristle with rocks, cliffs and cornices.
If they are not cremated, put to sea, left to rot or to wild animals, they are often buried.
But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
With her legs curled under her on a sofa, she is relaxed enough to punctuate the conversation with sudden gusts of wild laughter.
One promising profession that's emerging this century is wildlife preservationist.
They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain, or a combination of these.
The ambiguity inherent in that fantasy of unpinning suggests not only the male desire, but also the very real potential of a female "wildness" that desires release.
The wild subspecies that gave up their DNA for these tests still exist, though barely.
The far northwest coast of Tasmania is a wild place. Times, Sunday Times
He peered down into her tearful face with a twisted smile, reaching up to brush some of her wildly cascading hair from her cheek. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
This series is characterised by perfect realism juxtaposed with wild imagination.
The horses were belled and spancelled near by, feeding on the cane and wild grass, and Polly Ann was cooking journey-cakes on a stone. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Pumas roam these passes, hunting vast areas for grey fox, upland geese or guanacos, the wild and woolly relative of the llama. Globe and Mail
Over the years in Mumbai, she spends time as an advertising copywriter, a freelance journalist and a publications officer for the World Wildlife Fund.
Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support repressive regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku
What wilderness areas and national parks need is branded lodges and holiday homes that offer a guarantee of quality. Times, Sunday Times
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde
The complications are considerable, because the wildest creatures live in the wildest places. Times, Sunday Times
Leicester were full of verve and energy and, basically, bewildered most of the opposition last season. Times, Sunday Times
The amendment would bar the Interior Department from prohibiting individuals from legally carrying firearms inside national parks and wildlife refuges.
The lustrous gipsy – face drooped over the clinging arms and bosom, and the wild black hair fell down protectingly over the childish form. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma. Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link
Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
It was seldom spectacular, lacking the Van Gogh-like, wild-eyed artistry of Cunningham, but it worked.
What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep.
They can get better recipes to make popcorn, how they can screw up popcorn so bad bewilders me. Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Cinema Censorship, Quality Woes and Limited Telecom Services
Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
And the seaside is that little bit wilder than most people are aware of. Times, Sunday Times
To improve the ambience of the village, they cleared the wild growth and widened the roads.
Not far short of the Oregon border, I stopped for a beer at a tiny townlet in a wilderness of sage that had a post office, a tavern and not much else.
Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? Moby Dick, or, the whale
Meanwhile, what I think as a longtime recreational striper angler is this: (1) Make stripers gamefish coast-wide with no commercial fishing or sale of wild stripers at all. Uncategorized Blog Posts
According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
The final bell rang and everyone rushed out the door like a wild stampede of animals.
We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
To the front and rear of the house are lawns and shrubberies, but the grounds also contain two acres of young trees, a wildlife pond, mature woodland and banks of rhododendrons.
The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
Wisconsin Deer Baiting and Wildlife Feeding Regulations [PDF 243KB] pamphlet provides the regulations that are in place for counties where deer baiting and feeding is banned, as well as the regulations that have been developed in the counties where deer baiting and feeding is allowed, but regulated. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
Reliable information indicated that even the staff of the department expressed their bewilderment at some decisions that were taken with respect to the event.
She is surrounded by the native wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum inherited with the property and planted with bronze carex self sown seedlings. First Frost Of Fall « Fairegarden
Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
Its simple to grow and is closely related to wild dock and sorrel, is classed as a vegetable but treated as a fruit.
The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.” No Uncertain Terms
But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.
Two shrubs here are desert broom and burro bush, while wildflowers include desert honeysuckle, with long, tubular, brick-red flowers, and woolly feverfew, with white or greenish flowers.
A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment.
You can enjoy the Wild West Horse, Hound and Music Show, which will feature barrel racing, trick riding, comic horses, Appaloosa ponies and American Quarter Horses.
Is it strange that I became known as the wildest tantivy boy that rode with the King? The Tavern Knight
Among the great explorers is Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield. This World and the Mind of Man
Reforestation is an essential step toward restoring forest areas damaged by wildfire.
However after learning Yang great wild goose this factory arms the security office staff status truly, the new hundred personnel depart low-spirited.
In winter it's a wildlife haven; even in the harshest weather it affords a rarely failing food source.
I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the decaying Pyramids of kings, which cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain nor wild north wind, or by the unnumbered procession of the years and flight of time.
WHO is working with the Ministry of Health in Yemen to ensure that AFP surveillance throughout the country is sensitized so that no transmission of wild poliovirus is missed.
Swimming with seals or sea lions is undoubtedly the most fun you can have with a wild animal. Times, Sunday Times
All the houses looked bewilderingly similar.
the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
For Huysmans, kirsch is the "wild blowing of a trumpet blast. Do They Taste of Trumpets?
De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte.
Her resignation came amid investor fury after she overpaid wildly for a Brazilian iron ore mine. Times, Sunday Times
The manaesh, a slightly thicker bread crusted with sour crushed sumac and wild Armenian thyme, was pretty great too, especially when you toast it at home and have it with your coffee in the morning.
Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
One man reported major fish kills in the wild after aerial sprayings of DDT.
They seem like grizzled, wild-eyed children delighted with today's adventure.
Experts fear they could be the first great ape to become extinct in the wild. The Sun
I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
The finale to our visit came the very next evening when we were taken on a VIP visit to the Regency Casino for a mad night of wild abandon at the slot machines.
These technologies, with a bewildering numbers of acronyms, are described in many reviews.
Her husband's left her and the kids are running wild, so it's not surprising that she can't cope.
A delicious dinner of ham, fried potatoes, hot corn bread, fresh butter, wild bee honey, and huckleberry cobbler is served.
Hearing this, Val fell silent and then suddenly exploded into fits of wild laughter.
Millions of wild flowers colour the valleys, especially in April and May.
Frustration, anger and desperation have led to a series of wildcat strikes.
Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement.
Colin Howes, Keeper of Environmental Records at Doncaster Museum, says there are many problems with the legend, not least of which is the location of the woodland which harboured the wild cat.
The driving force behind a great organization is to never forget the passion and principles we all support in habitat work for the wild quail and all upland game. Quail Unlimited Implodes
The Qawrighul people hunted deer, wild sheep and birds, and fished.
If you are venturing further abroad, wild animals and insects can present a deadly danger and avoidance is usually the key. Times, Sunday Times
Cardamine tangutorum wild vegetable planted artificially could markedly improve the biomass of degraded ecosystem, and this kind of wild vegetable is more suitable for growing in the forest.
The following day was spent entering and exiting the fast-flowing currents and wild eddies in white water on the Mitta Mitta River.
The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal.
Wildlife must be nurtured for what it is, the solar-powered foundation of local ecology and local economy. Times, Sunday Times
A hairless philosopher who lives in the wilderness, meditates and kills people.
While some looked forward to that first wild week, just as many dreaded it. Times, Sunday Times
The Upper Peninsula, which is 90 percent forested, retains its aura of accessible wilderness. Pure Michigan Travel
Her black hair was no longer wild and untamable.
In the wild, this effect would guarantee mating in 80 percent of females within a three-week timespan. Smithsonian Mag
Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
It had been 40 years since the company closed the railway, but now there was again an echo in the wilderness, as the whistle blew once more.
The grass on the lawn grows wildly, we must use some weed killer.
Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
Statistical revision is the wild card in that most inexact pack of jokers known as economics.
With its unique silhouette of a wild, North American member of the Bovidae. Grouse Diary Entry
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
Less obvious, however, are the deaths from morbilli of wild seals and porpoises in several parts of the world and the equine morbilli in Australia that has not only killed the horses infected, but two of their trainers besides.
There is a common myth that America, land of the free market cowboys, is the unregulated Wild West of commerce.
Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
When you reach the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge, just south of town, mountain-bike a trail network among thousands of migratory birds, then cap it off with a swim in the nearby bioluminescent bay.
The tests are designed to ensure that the waste does not cause significant damage to marine wildlife or human health.
The E - 6 oncoprotein specifically inactivates wild type p53, and the E - 7 oncoprotein inactivates Rb.
There is a formal garden and wilder parts. The Sun
He dips his chin, and just as an expectant gasp ripples through the crowd, Eddie launches himself over the wall into a bramble of wild roses.
The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
The minority in the primitive forest used to live on a diet of wild animals.
If you are lucky enough to get a true wild turkey, the flavor match with the mole sauce is fantastic.
New York made it to the National League Championship Series as a Wild Card team last October, losing a cliffhanger series to the Atlanta Braves.
The 1947 classic film 'Wild Harvest' is about a love triangle between Dorothy Lamour, Alan Ladd and Robert Preston.
And every morning, when the air was clean and brisk, the black man who had first dubbed him `Danlo the Wild "taught him to ice skate. THE BROKEN GOD
Wildlife official are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in at least 75 years, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off.
Topical wild yam preparations, which contain diosgenin, and progesterone creams were tested.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. Oscar Wilde
Starting with only a loincloth , you must explore the wilderness to find water, food and shelter.
After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress. Jerry
I ordered scallops with ragout of haricot beans and wild mushrooms with butternut squash sauce.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde
Dock, foxtail, jimsonweed, johnsongrass, morning glory, wild nightshades and ragweed indicate a soil low in calcium and phosphorus.
This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin’ bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes.’
That's pretty precise for a wild guess. Times, Sunday Times
To change it would be like trying to tame a wild animal. Times, Sunday Times
And they are eating these sorts of wild crops, or non-traditional food crops such as sago.
Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
But never in my wildest dreams did I imagine something like this could have happened.
With a wild surmise, 1 began to breed, generation after generation, from whichever child looked most like an insect.
It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo.
For spouts of wild fury dashed up into the clouds; and the shore, wherever any sight of it was left, weltered in a sadly frothsome state, like the chin of a Titan with a lather-brush at work. Mary Anerley
Some shoppers looked bewildered by the sheer variety of goods on offer.
Maslenitsa, known as the overeating holiday, is the wildest, merriest celebration of the year. Celebration Breads
We were driving most unaggressively across a small plaza, with a driver and a friend on the box beside him to help keep us from harm, when a trolley-car came wildly round a corner at the speed of at least two miles an hour and crossed our track. Familiar Spanish Travels
Especially the flowerage of spring time, with its many wild flowers and the rows of fruit trees along the fairways, make even the most ambitious golf player stop and contemplate nature's dazzling beauty.
Beyond simply looking fantastic the wildly stylized world of the film is an obvious reminder not to take things too literally.
It's a shared space and has heathers, ferns, gorse and many wild flowers (not at this time of year) growing on it.
For some it means wilderness treks, hemp do-rags, and a rigorous recycling regimen.
The park is more commonly associated with the restorative powers of its 2,000 rose garden, teeming wildlife and hay meadows.
Bewildering indeed. Conspiracy theories have emerged faster than mushrooms in a damp Exmoor field. Some claim the shooting was a fiction, dreamed up to discourage trophy-hunters.
Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
It was neat and elegant, like all wild animals, with an air of aristocratic insouciance and good breeding.
When you're shooting sports action or wildlife - or simply trying to keep up with fast-moving children - the 10 frames-per-second high speed with mechanical shutter continuous shooting* and new tracking auto focus feature will ensure you never miss that vital moment. Digital Photography Now
Different soil compositions and geomorphic factors affect the distribution of wildlife and make room for other vegetative groups such as halophyte plants including Atriplex, Larrea divaricata, L. cuneifolia, Suaeda, and Tricomaria. Humid Pampas
Then I'd like to go back to South Africa, to the bush, to shoot wildlife.
I invested in some pre-cooked, but fresh, foods like grilled wild Alaskan salmon, spring veggie cous cous, grilled asparagus, a whole roasted chicken (for us and Phoebe -- she's got to eat healthy too!) that came with a free side of cole slaw (yes from Whole Foods). Laura Klein: Hitting The Road? How To Eat Healthy
In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
Welcome to the Wild, Wild West: The old Fowlers Pub, located at the top of Soi Skaw Beach (off Second Road), is being refurbished and will soon re-open as a Wild West-style theme boozer and noshery with hamburgers being a specialty.
I suppose if an angel was extremely strong, they could use the energy in their place of birth to uncloak themselves, but I have no support for these wild flights of fancy.
Crafty collars made of beaten metal, neckpieces of wood and macramé, great big pendants and crosses are all back from the wilderness.
I grabbed Carmen, but she hit me in the mouth while flailing her arms wildly.
Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
Quite how the developer thinks this remote area, that is only penetrated by one minor road, is not a wild place beggars belief.
Probably something about the wildness of the voices is attractive to them. "For Children"
A ban was enacted Tuesday on international trade in caviar and other ichthyological products derived from the wild, endangered sturgeon. Will Whitman's EBay Savor Caviar Ban?
It is not equipped to handle the wild peaks and troughs typical of wind production. Times, Sunday Times
He heads his article by saying that havens for wild life don't need buffer zones.
The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure.
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex

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