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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

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

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

Suddenly, the strange wolf took another gulp, and jerked its great claw away from the cub’s belly.

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

The bill signing comes as California’s gray wolves had at least 42 pups this year — a record.

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

Skunks abound, and foxes and coyotes and wolves and weasels—all predators.

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

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

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

He wolfed down an avocado and cheese sandwich, the first time he’d shown a decent appetite since leaving the House of Hades.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

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

On Day 3, out of desperation, I decided to pick her up while she was wolfing down her dinner, an interruption guaranteed to elicit a howl of protest.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

Children sat in groups, some wolfing down their food and others listlessly picking at it.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia


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