the wild

noun

: a wild, free, or natural place, state, or existence

The plants were collected from the wild.

They will return the animal to the wild when it is healthy.

I've only seen that animal in a zoo, never in the wild.

Examples of the wild in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And a lost hiker returns safely from a walk on the wild side. —

Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024 Atlanta, one of three teams ahead of San Francisco in the wild card race, arrived to start this week for a four-game series at Oracle Park. —

Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024 According to the Gila County Adventure Forum, early settlers gave the community its unique name around 1877 inspired by the wild strawberries that grew across the land. —

Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2024 Smaller and stockier than most other equine species, Przewalski’s horses once roamed Europe and Asia but became extinct in the wild due to environmental changes and competition with humans and livestock. —

Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the wild

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