adverb
definition
In a wild, uncontrolled manner.
example
He swung wildly at the guy's head, but ended up on the floor.
Examples of wildly in a Sentence
The rain drummed wildly on the roof.
Her heart pounded wildly as she pressed closer.
She giggled wildly and he lowered her to his chest, hugged her close.
Instead they searched their surroundings wildly in the light of periodic lightning and the fire at the far end of the hall.
Her heart was beating wildly as she cowered against one of the benches.
The tall youth, against whom he stumbled, seized his thin neck with his hands and, yelling wildly, fell with him under the feet of the pressing, struggling crowd.
Her heart was beating wildly.
The French doors were locked, and she beat on them, looking around wildly for deck furniture to break the glass.
She crawled and clawed her way to Dusty, looking wildly for her brother.
Her heart pounded wildly.
It was a lovely setting for a home, secluded in wildly beautiful forested hills.
Katie hit the accelerator and the wheels spun wildly, instantly coating Carmen and Alex with mud.
His hands slid up her back in a slow caress that made her heart beat wildly.
A few minutes later, Dusty sat up suddenly, sucking in air and gazing around him wildly.
He heard Vara shouting and looked around wildly.
When he finally released her, she stumbled back, her heart racing wildly.
Jessi looked around wildly.
She looked around wildly then up.
It is said that the idea of a liquid compass was suggested to Crow -by the experience of the captain of a coasting vessel whose compass card was oscillating wildly until a sea broke on board filling the compass bowl, when the card became steady.
After wildly circling about, and reaching a height at which it appears a mere speck, where it winnows a random zigzag course, it abruptly shoots downwards and aslant, and then as abruptly stops to regain its former elevation, and this process it repeats many times.
The southern declivity is generally steep and rugged, forming in some places an almost perpendicular wall of the height of from 2000 to 2500 ft.; while the northern, divided at intervals into valleys, sometimes of great fertility and sometimes wildly romantic, slopes gradually towards the great plain of northern Germany.
Her heart was beating so wildly she was finally forced to gasp for air.
Cassie's heart lurched wildly, and her face felt cold.
Local authorities, not noted for being either wantonly extravagant or wildly adventurous, have become Irvine's most enthusiastic partners.
Breaking the Laws of Physics, again, Monterey engineers added a spacious cuddy cabin to last years wildly popular 228 SI.
A recent study which found high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in women whose periods had either stopped or were wildly irregular.
The top three animals mirrored the global result, which surprisingly didn't demonstrate a wildly divergent set of choices depending on different cultures.
Instead, this Liverpool group were acclaimed as wildly eclectic, their 2004 debut album selling an astounding 600,000 copies.
Any figures above 60 odd miles per hour are wildly exaggerated.
Some wildly extravagant claims have been made about what ID cards would achieve.
A bouncing, rhythmic text with an irresistible refrain joins forces with wildly exuberant illustration to create a jolly romp of a picture book.
I had a strange feeling in my head, my heart pounded wildly.
Action Men with wildly flailing limbs, thrown helplessly about at terrifying velocity.
We should be sitting around a table talking wildly, smoking and drinking frothy hot drinks.
The exhibition includes lighting from the strictly functional to the wildly ostentatious.
The screenplay, by Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown, allows for wildly imaginative production design and some rich, dark comedy.
You do not need a PhD in airport economics to find this forecast wildly implausible.
The first car to use this system, the Insight, was wildly impractical.
There followed a series of " spun " reports from Downing Street, often wildly inaccurate on military matters.
That strikes me as so wildly improbable as to be virtually inconceivable.
S.O.S. is another wildly inventive black comedy from one of Britain's funniest writers.
Now I have ruthlessly lampooned everything so far, even Bouillon's improvisation, but in truth I am actually wildly impressed.
Roles of wildly varying quality followed, until in 71 Christie began a professional and romantic liaison with Warren Beatty.
His opponent flailed wildly and then fell limp - the fight nigh-on choked out of him.
But then everybody becomes focused on the gains to be made and markets wildly overshoot.
The direction is, typically for Bay, wildly over-the-top.
A woman's emotional resilience can vary wildly with the circumstances she finds herself in.
Choosing to marry abroad can be wildly romantic, not to mention cheaper.
A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on " wildly speculative rumors.
In Red Square, feast your eyes on the wildly colored turban domed St Basil's Cathedral - an enduring Russian symbol.