How to Use wilder in a Sentence

wilder

verb
  • This year expect to see things get even wilder with zebra, reptile, and cow prints all on the rise.
    — Franziska Fuchs, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The plot of season four will almost certainly go to some even wilder places.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But things get even wilder when everyone on the show becomes Janet for an episode.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But the public reaction has been even wilder, even more lawless.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • And [Lawrence] just kept encouraging more and more and wilder and wilder.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The polite but understandably sleepy crowd would have to wait for something, well, wilder.
    — Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2024
  • No other position leads to wilder mood swings than the quarterback.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2021
  • If Episode 3 was any indication, the season is on pace to get even wilder.
    — Kilty Cleary, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • With Henry, Julius finds a man even wilder than him, full of endless ambition.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the memoir is also weirder and wilder than this description implies.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Farther South The coast grows less developed and arguably wilder as one travels south.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Somehow, the college basketball jobs carousel — for coaches and players — seems to spin faster and wilder every spring.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ribas’ hands and movement were much crisper than that of Dern, whose movement was awkward and punches were slower and wilder than those of her foe.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • History itself, of course, is different from what any of these narratives suppose, and wilder.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Their path would be brutal (Philadelphia, then Atlanta), but wilder things have happened.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But as the days drew into weeks, the rumor mill swirled — with conspiracy theories growing deeper and wilder — about what was keeping such a prominent member of the royal family out of view.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Link intensifies her versions by making the stories wilder and setting them in mundane, contemporary situations.
    — Anita Felicelli, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Dog Man’s nemesis is an evil orange tabby named Petey (Pete Davidson) who loves nothing more than to dream up wilder and wilder robots to take down his rival.
    — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The pizza is New York-style, with a mix of traditional (cheese, cupping pepperoni) and wilder signature pies (a jalapeno popper pizza, a cheeseburger Big Mac pizza).
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
  • Like anyone's high school class photograph, the 97th Oscar Nominees Official Photo is a blast to look at up close (and even wilder to experience in person).
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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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