wild thing

collocation in English

meaningsofwildandthing

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wild
adjective
uk
/waɪld/us
/waɪld/
uncontrolled, violent, ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofwildandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwild thing

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It is an encounter which must entail both knowledge of the animal and respect for it as awildthing.
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People who owned the airwaves got to use them in thiswildthingcalled democracy.
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Some folks (and protective friends) were angry, and wondered why she took my title and made it into this kind of girls gonewildthing....
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So for a whole summer he stayed hidden in the woods, discovered by none, forgetful of himself and of his own, lurking like awildthing.
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You think about wild things.
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Many wild things have been said, and it is important carefully to examine the judgment.
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Of course, in democracies where we have freedom of speech, obviously wild people say wild things.
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The history of the civilised world shows that the wild things of value are gradually being wiped out.
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Of course, some wild things were said.
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In addition, they want farmers to farm a whole lot of wild things they might rather be without.
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Quite honestly, how can any industrialist, particularly one from abroad, contemplate investing in a country where wild things such as that are said on a party political broadcast?
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But we're known for doing wild things.
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He claimed power over wild things.
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Where are the wild things?
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In an unpublished autobiography, she described the children: as having in common one predominating trait and that was a love of the woods and all wild things.
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