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[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

Eiko Ishioka designed the blood-red battle armor with a ribbed surface evoking both exposed human musculature and an armadillo’s shell, while the pointed helmet foreshadows the wolf Dracula later becomes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

A gray wolf was spotted in Lake County, a bright sign that the recovering endangered species is expanding its presence in California, wildlife officials say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

"It's the same wolf pack I saw before. The leader is white. He's the one I saw at Skwentna. He's not just looking for food."

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

"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

While on the phone, he said he could see the tracks of two wolves on the road where he was walking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The legislation also codifies a program to compensate ranchers when they lose livestock to wolves or suffer indirect harm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

And I also learned—as with the wolves and the doe—that I wanted to know more, wanted to know everything there was to know about dogs and the woods and running with a team.

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

Even the highest-ranking executive shamelessly wolfs down a taco.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015

He's a boy and wolfs his food down.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2015

They were almost as big as a normal pretty’s, but they angled upward like a wolfs.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Within 48 hours after our meetup, Pang swung by Green Valley and wolfed down another noodle bowl before he caught his flight.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

How completely different from a fast- food hamburger wolfed down without a moment’s thought in a speeding car.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

Had she fallen while wolfing and lost that point, Andrade would have topped the podium, with—all other points being equal—Lee all the way in fifth place.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2021

I was wolfing it down already, crazy to head for town.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck


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