How to Use the wild in a Sentence

the wild

noun
  • Want to take a walk on the wild side?
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2026
  • No one has ever seen one in the wild.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This bob feels like a subtle walk on the wild side.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This time the Dodgers will at least avoid the wild card round.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The vastness, the green, the clouds, the wild.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Now the Go is in the wild and we've been sent one to try out.
    — New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The goal is always to return them to the wild.
    — Itay Hod, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Anthony is the wild card in all this.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Models that perform well in labs but fail in the wild.
    — Ahmed Elshireef, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But every now and then, the wild reaches back.
    — Itay Hod, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Ocean images may be first of newborn great white shark in the wild.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Dickerson hopes guests will think about the wild places around them.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Some cactus smugglers steal seeds from the wild but leave the plant in place.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • To track them down in the wild, the researchers didn’t have to travel far.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 5 June 2025
  • By the mid-1800s, the great auk was no longer found in the wild.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • Coel, however, is the wild card.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Wolves are no longer found in the wild in South Korea.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But first the Chargers would have to find their way past the wild-card round.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And a lost hiker returns safely from a walk on the wild side.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • None of the things that matter in society can save you in the wild.
    — Adrienne Westenfeld, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
  • That earned them a home game last week, in the wild card round, against the Packers.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Skarsgård remains the wild card.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Zeev was always the jokester, the wild child, the one who had to keep his emotions in check.
    — Joe Smith, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Long bouts of exposure to the wild sometimes drive men crazy.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • But those acts never came close to the amazing feats of orcas in the wild.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Explore her life at the center and learn how rat snakes survive in the wild.
    — Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Surveys have found dwindling numbers of delta smelt in the wild.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • The tone and pace of her writing are transformed by her encounter in the wild.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Some were released back into the wild, and others were moved abroad.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing brings on the warm and fuzzy ocean vibes like seeing dolphins in the wild.
    — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'the wild.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: