How to Use gray wolf in a Sentence

gray wolf

noun

• The gray wolf was among the species assessed in the new study.
  — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 28 July 2021
• The decision to delist the gray wolf was, in some ways, a long time coming.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
• Their nearest relative, the gray wolf, still roams forests and tundras.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• After about 10 minutes a gray wolf streaked out of the timber and grabbed a big cow by the flank.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• The Nez Perce give the gray wolf status equal to that of human beings.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• The 3-year-old female gray wolf when it was collared in 2025.
  — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
• The Arctic wolf, also known as the white or polar wolf, is a subspecies of the gray wolf.
  — Ralph P. Stuart, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
• There has been a long debate about whether the small canid is its own species or a hybrid between the gray wolf and the coyote.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• And a gray wolf has been found dead after being hit by a car in California.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021
• That blob of true nighttime darkness overlaps almost perfectly with the range of the gray wolf.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
• Dire wolves were native to the Americas and larger than their cousins, the gray wolf.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 25 May 2018
• The average gray wolf lives between three and four years in the Rocky Mountains.
  — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
• The gray wolf is believed to have been extirpated from the state in the 1920s.
  — Suzanne Espinosa Solis, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The delisting generally opens the gray wolf to hunting and trapping.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• Across the United States, there are roughly 6,000 gray wolves.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• The name comes from an Ojibwa word that means gray wolf, and a river that runs through town and alongside the trail still maintains the name.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• The gray wolf is protected as an endangered species under state and federal law.
  — Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
• The title of second-longest migration goes to the gray wolf, the caribou’s predator.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The gray wolf was first put on the Endangered Species Act list in the 1970s.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• Several packs of gray wolves live at the Wolf Center, in enclosures spanning a few acres.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• In the 1800s, wild gray wolves loped amid thick Oakland forests on their descendants’ future zoo grounds.
  — Eduardo Medina, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• The Mexican gray wolf has had a rough summer, out on the range and in the rooms where laws and regulations are written and enforced.
  — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• According to a Facebook post from the zoo, the 11-year-old gray wolf had undergone surgery to remove a large mass on her chest.
  — Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
• The three pups bring the total number of gray wolves in California to at least seven, and perhaps as many as 10.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• This month, a lone gray wolf was spotted in Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century.
  — Jonathan Wood, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2026
• The Mexican wolf is the rarest subspecies of gray wolf found in North America, the release said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• The gray wolf howled, trotted back and forth, and gradually worked closer and closer to the nervous but fascinated caribou.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• The pups were large (one of them, James told me, was twice the normal weight of a gray wolf at birth) and white (gray wolves are born with very dark coats), with unusually robust heads.
  — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• One day — when all six adults were lying about, sleeping after a night of hunting — a big gray wolf, strange to the group, showed up on a ridge and trotted casually toward the den.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• After his partners had been gone a few minutes, the big gray wolf openly ran to within 100 yards of the caribou, sat down in plain sight, and started to howl.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026