How to Use wilder in a Sentence
wilder
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From this point things grow even wilder for Weisz’s sisters.
—Vulture, 4 May 2023
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And [Lawrence] just kept encouraging more and more and wilder and wilder.
—Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
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Amazon Custom Joy-Cons could get even wilder than that.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023
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Even as the show’s twists get wilder and wilder, there’s also more acknowledgment of the cast’s real lives.
—Vulture, 28 June 2023
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This could lead to even wilder partisan swings in policy than the country now faces.
—Susan Dudley, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
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Bottoms is a decidedly chaotic film from start to end, each scene wilder and more outlandish than the last.
—Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2023
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Farther South The coast grows less developed and arguably wilder as one travels south.
—Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
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No other position leads to wilder mood swings than the quarterback.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2021
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Sometimes the familiar trappings of the high-school genre can open the door for a show to do wilder and more inventive things than more allegedly mature shows.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
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The more bubblier and wilder the characters are, like when Tom Cavanagh was playing Sherloque [in season 5], there was tons of improv on his part.
—Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2022
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The video features are even wilder: there’s an object eraser for video — just tap and an unwanted subject disappears!
—Allison Johnson, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2023
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The model is smaller and, well, wilder than the big boats Wider has historically delivered, signaling the start of a new design era for the Italian yard.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2024
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Their path would be brutal (Philadelphia, then Atlanta), but wilder things have happened.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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The crowd is ravenous, and That Mexican OT feeds off the energy, becoming bolder and wilder with his onstage antics.
—Jaime Falcón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
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The only thing wilder than that was the fact that Jeong couldn't riddle himself into figuring out who was behind the mask, even after everyone else had clocked that that iconic voice belonged to Grammy winner Michael Bolton.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
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The unusual hero car is a vintage Fiat 500, built specially with electric power to be faster and wilder, and it's shot for visceral thrills with real, practical stunts rather than CGI effects.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 17 June 2023
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Long known for being a more refined sister to wilder spots like Miami, this beach town on a barrier island boasts super-clear waters, some of the state’s best shopping, and hotels that are perfect for a long weekend of pampering.
—Juliet Izon, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2024
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And in his experience, these first-generation recipes, which haven’t been precisely calibrated over centuries, taste younger and wilder.
—Molly Fitzpatrick, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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Berlin takes an American, British sense of heist thrillers and French romanticism but mixes them with characters who are far more tumultuous, effervescent, febrile, wilder in emotions.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
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Link intensifies her versions by making the stories wilder and setting them in mundane, contemporary situations.
—Anita Felicelli, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
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