How to Use gray wolf in a Sentence

gray wolf

noun

• The gray wolf was among the species assessed in the new study.
  — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 28 July 2021
• There are now more than 6,000 gray wolves in nine states.
  — USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• The gray wolf was first put on the Endangered Species Act list in the 1970s.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• In the 1970s, the U.S. listed the gray wolf as endangered.
  — Christine Peterson, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2020
• The decision to delist the gray wolf was, in some ways, a long time coming.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
• The gray wolf is believed to have been extirpated from the state in the 1920s.
  — Suzanne Espinosa Solis, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The Nez Perce give the gray wolf status equal to that of human beings.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Across the United States, there are roughly 6,000 gray wolves.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• The Arctic wolf, also known as the white or polar wolf, is a subspecies of the gray wolf.
  — Ralph P. Stuart, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
• Few animals in the U.S. draw as much adulation or ire as the gray wolf.
  — Christine Peterson, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2020
• There has been a long debate about whether the small canid is its own species or a hybrid between the gray wolf and the coyote.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• The name comes from an Ojibwa word that means gray wolf, and a river that runs through town and alongside the trail still maintains the name.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• Scott shot and killed a gray wolf while elk hunting in rural Union County on Oct. 27.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Dire wolves were native to the Americas and larger than their cousins, the gray wolf.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 25 May 2018
• Born seven weeks ago at the Oakland Zoo, the gray wolf pups are thriving — all four are healthy and ready to explore their 2.3 acres of land.
  — Eduardo Medina, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• In 1974, the gray wolf became one of the first species protected under the Endangered Species Act.
  — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
• The Mexican wolf is the rarest subspecies of gray wolf found in North America, the release said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• In the 1800s, wild gray wolves loped amid thick Oakland forests on their descendants’ future zoo grounds.
  — Eduardo Medina, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• Denver: The state has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, wildlife officials said Wednesday.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• According to a Facebook post from the zoo, the 11-year-old gray wolf had undergone surgery to remove a large mass on her chest.
  — Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
• That blob of true nighttime darkness overlaps almost perfectly with the range of the gray wolf.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
• And a gray wolf has been found dead after being hit by a car in California.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021
• Colorado was once home to gray wolves, but they were eradicated in the state with the last ones killed by about 1940, according to CPW.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 8 July 2019
• The Arctic boasts other land predators, including the Arctic wolf, a subspecies of the gray wolf, and the Arctic fox.
  — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2020
• The last common ancestor of the gray wolf and dire wolf lived about 5.7 million years ago, the researchers reported.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• The title of second-longest migration goes to the gray wolf, the caribou’s predator.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The three pups bring the total number of gray wolves in California to at least seven, and perhaps as many as 10.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• The Mexican wolf is a subspecies of gray wolf, a smaller cousin of the wolves that were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1996.
  — Cally Carswell, Science | AAAS, 27 Sep. 2017
• But these frolicking gray wolf pups still merge and reemerge with mesmerizing weirdness.
  — Tyler Remmel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• In May, the Army Corps released a draft of its environmental impact analysis, which looks largely at impacts to water bodies and areas in which the project may have impacts on the habitat of endangered species such as the gray wolf.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024