wolf
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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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