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wolf

[woolf] / wʊlf /


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It has crept its way into dinner-table fodder at Ellina, where patrons wolf down $89 steaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

But conservation groups have criticised the move, saying it could derail long-term efforts to recover the endangered wolf populations.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife received two reports of a rare gray wolf sighting and photos of the carnivore in late August in an area where Mendocino, Glenn and Lake counties meet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Already it had something of the beauty of a full-grown wolf: the slender pale.grey muzzle; large silver ears with their edging of black; elegant, dark-rimmed eyes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

"I saw chickens, some wolves and some monkeys and then the bears which were definitely my favourite."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

But when you are successful, first financially and afterward, the wolves come in to find a problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Collaring wolves in a pack that doesn’t already have the devices is challenging, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Right now the bond markets are like a pack of wolves stalking red deer, probing for weaknesses.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

His eyes darted around nervously, searching for any sign of the wolves.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

I said, “But, Ma, how come everybody keeps telling me ’bout what I done to Mr. Douglass that got all the bears and wolfs coming to the Settlement looking for something to eat?”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

They held court as four-legged guests wolfed down pizza pour chiens, or pizza for dogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

As a teenager, I wolfed down tomes such as “Salem’s Lot,” “The Green Mile,” “Firestarter” and “Carrie.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

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

Jared said, eyeing me as I wolfed the taco down in three bites.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2020

As soon as he took a bite the hunger became uncontrollable, and he wolfed down half the can before he could stop.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

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 stopped several times for roadside fruit at different points around the city, wolfing down chili-spiked mango, drenched in lime juice, from behind the wheel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

He was Joey Chestnut wolfing down hot dogs, but without the prize at the end.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023

The boys in the group flung themselves onto the bunk beds, giggling with the men, and went about wolfing bread, bananas and candy sticks the men had left out in the open—like bait for fish.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane


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