How to Use wolf in a Sentence

wolf

1 of 2 noun

• Sometimes the wolf packs that haunt the area howl back.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
• Fish are hunted for food, and a wolf is caught in a trap.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• By 1287, the city’s coat of arms shows the monster as having the head of a wolf, the body of a bird and the tail of a snake.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps, to be fair, Joe Biden is like the boy who cried wolf.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• The wolf, the bear and the cougar are far more anxious to get away from man than man is to get away from them. ...
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• March and April are the best months to view bears, while the winter months are best for wolves and bighorn sheep.
  — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
• This may be the first Arctic wolf to be cloned, but it’s not the first mammal.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
• Fine hairs found at the child’s feet belonged to either a dog or a wolf.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• How many must be changed to make the specimen no longer a wolf but a dog?
  — Pat Shipman, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022
• Fox were worth 20 bucks, wolverine about $90, and wolves a bit more.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Our folklore and our stories have made predators the bad guys: the big, bad wolf; the big, bad bear.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Moose numbers boomed during the wolf drop-off but have plunged since.
  — John Flesher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2022
• What would turn the descendants of a wolf and a great ape into best friends?
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Goths, Eighties fans, and hungry wolves, this one is for you.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• Your dog sees you as part of its pack and will be ready to attack any threat, just like its wolf cousins.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2022
• Other than snow leopards, the park is home to the Tibetan wolf, Eurasian brown bear ,and blue sheep.
  — Andrea Pinto, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2022
• Finally, hot-glue a wolf figurine to a rock, and set it and other rocks atop the moss.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• The new pack consists of at least five wolves that have not previously been seen in the state.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2023
• And with these specialty tours starting at the wolf-friendly 4 p.m., the fun may not stop there.
  — Karla Petersoncolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• The story takes place in the woods, where wolves are typically found.
  — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• The song is about three police officers and the three pigs are the police officers, and the wolf.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
• But balance is certainly not easy when the wolves are at your door.
  — Bill Novelli, Fortune, 14 July 2023
• The goal: To bring back extinct species at some point in the future, be they elephants, wolves or humpback whales.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• For the elk, a bullet to the brain — if the person knew how to shoot, which a lot of hunters don’t — would be a lot better than the wolf’s tearing them apart.
  — David Marchese David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• The plan to reintroduce the wolves now has still been met with some opposition.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
• In this one, a girl travels with her father, a hunter whose goal is to eliminate wolf packs.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• Naomi Campbell walked the catwalk with a large wolf head on her shoulder.
  — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
• Make a bunny, a wolf, or a snake, and have your child concoct stories about its escapades.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
• This moon’s name stems from the belief that wolves are likely to be heard howling at this winter moon due to hunger.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
• For years, wolves nationwide have been the subject of litigation.
  — Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024

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wolf

2 of 2 verb

• The campers wolfed down the food, stared into the fire for a few minutes, and stumbled to their tents.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 21 July 2019
• But that doesn’t mean Brown should wolf down three pizzas.
  — Andy Staples and Bruce Feldman, SI.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Some fans come simply to root for the home team, to enjoy a day with the family, to wolf down one too many Dodger dogs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• In total, nearly 500 pounds of prime rib are wolfed down before the evening concludes.
  — Jordan Okun, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
• And yes, my stomach hurts after wolfing down the whole thing in a matter of minutes.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2019
• Don’t miss the sweet potato cinnamon roll, with a thick smear of cream-cheese icing, which my kids wolfed down.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 12 Jan. 2018
• A femme fatale will even break off an active mating session to turn around and wolf down her paramour, mid-coitus.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 July 2017
• Most wolfing periods last somewhere between 4 to 6 weeks, but have been known to go up to 12.
  — Alexander-Julian Gibbson, GQ, 25 May 2018
• As mostly solitary hunters rather than pack animals, like dogs, cats don’t have to wolf their food down to be sure to get their share.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Mexicano and my sisters and I would wolf it down whenever Mom made it.
  — Anita L. Arambula, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• My health-conscious parents would not wolf down a tray of brownies, but wholesome sourdough bread?
  — Henry Dawson, Bon Appétit, 4 Oct. 2019
• There are less daunting methods to beat the summer heat than by wolfing down still-boiling chicken soup for lunch.
  — Dave Kim, New York Times, 19 July 2017
• Bruce Arians couldn’t wait to wolf down a quick breakfast, shake some hands and pose for some pictures, and then hit the golf course Saturday morning.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2018
• By autumn, the caterpillars had wolfed down the leaves, pupated and flown away, leaving our thistle fields in tatters.
  — Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• The aliens are still out there, of course, and probably getting pretty hungry, having wolfed down so much of Earth's population in the first film.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2020
• After wolfing down the food, Rojas said, the couple ordered 10 burritos to go before heading off to the flight back to Denver.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
• In the past, participants have had to take on obstacles after wolfing down a warm can of tuna of an entire sleeve of Oreos.
  — Slade Rand, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The Avengers: Endgame star was back on his workout grind days after tying the knot with Katherine Schwarzenegger – and wolfing down an oversized helping of wedding cake.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
• The driver of a Pepsi truck, wolfing pizza with the engine going, spots Pakenham’s raised phone, drops the pizza, and pulls back into traffic.
  — Elizabeth Royte, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2018
• America is the world’s second-biggest meat market; the average American wolfs down more than 100kg a year.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
• Outward Hound slow feeders Slow feeders make a game out of mealtime, which both stimulates dog's brains and helps avoid tummy troubles from wolfing down meals.
  — Amy Roberts, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• The new Soviet elite continued to wolf haute cuisine with the same élan as their vodka-swilling Czarist predecessors.
  — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
• Group members do not believe there is a threat to wolf populations overall, only those packs in the Denali road corridor.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• For the time being, project assistants buzz around with power tools and lots of questions, pausing occasionally to wolf down slices of pizza.
  — Naomi Waxman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• Racing from point to point and wolfing down the sights may be the most authentic way to see New York—in keeping with the Weltgeist of the city—but the spirit of Paris is one of savoring details, of pausing between activities.
  — Jay McInerney, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2019
• Can the decision to wolf down two doughnuts — and then shake out the decorative curls of chocolate that collect in the bottom of the bag and eat those, too — really be foretold by something deep in my family’s DNA?
  — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Using silverware is one of the biggest struggles of Beaumont's clients, alongside other table errors, like wolfing down food.
  — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
• Veera and Suku are a great team: In between gorging themselves on buttery sweets such as laddus and jalebis, and wolfing down mango pickles with fried fish and rice, the two boys solve mysteries, expose swindlers and humble the arrogant.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
• Maestas said Catron County, New Mexico, long a holdout to wolf releases, has joined the conservation effort.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 19 Mar. 2020
• Instead of wolfing down another on-the-fly veggie bowl or sandwich, make your midday meal more of an opportunity for nourishment.
  — Jazmine Polk, Health.com, 18 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024