Sentence examples for a thing wild from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a thing wild" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is untamed, uncontrolled, or free-spirited, often in a poetic or literary context.
Example: "In the heart of the forest, I stumbled upon a thing wild, untouched by human hands."
Alternatives: "a wild thing" or "something untamed".

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There was a difference, and what people meant when they called a thing "wild" was not what he saw in the green horses at all.

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"While the golf trade journals claim that 'golf courses provide suitable habitat for wildlife,' we see them as a destroyer of all things wild".

The other opinion is that there was never such a thing as wild corn, that instead corn (Zea mays) developed from a related grass, teosinte (Zea mexicana or Euchlaena mexicana).

He then takes us on a tour of many things, wild and wacky, under such headings as "Art as event, performance and confrontation".

Craters, broken things, wild dogs.

She might have been a child, a supplicant or a wild thing calmed for a moment by this artificial moonlight.

Are wild teens a thing of the past?

As a boy he took a pack of badgers ("A wild thing is a badger," Newlove said) and taught them to come when called.

He is what my parents would have called, in Yiddish, a vilde chaya, a wild thing.

Nineteen-twenties Hollywasd wamongmotherthingshings, a wild party, and many of its movies were wild, too.

A wild thing, with a small body and dark eyes, Ms. Neilson and Mr. McQueen were in a sense well matched.

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