wolf down

Example Sentences

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Some players will, like boxers, shed weight in saunas the night before, tip the scales and then wolf down carbohydrate-heavy food in the dressing room.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

Recovery from our revelry required that we sip Alka-Seltzer and wolf down menudo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Street parties will be planned across the country, and the queen’s subjects will presumably wolf down large portions of the soon-to-be announced “platinum pudding.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022

Hand-held, quick to assemble and wolf down, they embody a quintessentially American idea that founding father Benjamin Franklin put to paper in 1748 and which still powers the ambitious on Wall Street and beyond.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2021

I sit again and wolf down my food.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh