wolf
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But people who encounter a wolf should not run, but rather make noises, maintain eye contact and retreat slowly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
People can also submit reports of gray wolf sightings to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
However, environmental groups pointed to studies that suggested wolf attacks on livestock were rare and had little impact on ranchers' income.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
I’m not sure what’s happening to the wolf, but it is definitely feeling like winter for Djokovic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Like a wolf, I gorged—ate nineteen paper bowlfuls of chili.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Right now the bond markets are like a pack of wolves stalking red deer, probing for weaknesses.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The Wolf Conservation Center noted that ranchers were entitled to up to 100% compensation for any livestock losses caused by wolves under the current system, with individual states providing funding for programmes to deter attacks.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The wolves eat other animals including elk, deer, reptiles, birds and sometimes large livestock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Upon such a determination, the secretary and other officials are to meet with state authorities and encourage them to pass similar measures and loosen standards for killing wolves.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
There was a pack of brush wolves and they had been chasing her.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Costa conveys nearly everything he needs to simply through his arrangement of the actors’ bodies: The man hungrily wolfs down his food in the foreground, chattering about Joaquim’s kindness and decency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2020
Alleged assailants in both cases have been painted as lone wolfs acting out of mental instability and disagreement with the politicians’ messages.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2018
He wheels his bike confidently up to the cafe, birdlike and sprightly in a striped shirt and skinny jeans, and wolfs down an éclair.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2016
Even the highest-ranking executive shamelessly wolfs down a taco.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015
Here I’d helped save Cooter’s ear, and the first chance he got to throw me to the wolfs he did it!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
I don’t know why, but I was suddenly ravenous and wolfed down a dozen saltines and two chocolate chip cookies just to chase the taste of my humiliation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
On January 2, I wolfed down a breakfast of dehydrated porridge with Christian Wild, a postdoctoral scholar who works with Pettit.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2022
That recalls Iowa’s state fair, where generations of presidential candidates have worked the porkchop grill and wolfed down deep-fried versions of all imaginable foodstuffs.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The new wave of burger merchants understands their products are not an everyday food, unlike previous generations, which wolfed them down like chips at a Super Bowl party.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
Her handmaids wolfed theirs down giggling and grinning, though the men of her khas sniffed at the grilled meat suspiciously.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
I saw something about Messi wolfing on a brisket sandwich at a Buc-ee’s but without video proof, I suspect that may have been an AI hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Inside over breakfast, the chatter of possible strikes and crew members wolfing down baked beans, fried eggs and mugs of tea.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
“I would be wolfing down this food,” Walton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
He was Joey Chestnut wolfing down hot dogs, but without the prize at the end.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023
Harry, who could see a huge Dudley tantrum coming on, began wolfing down his bacon as fast as possible in case Dudley turned the table over.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
