How to Use wolf in a Sentence

wolf

1 of 2 noun

• The curly wolf cut does just that.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 22 May 2026
• But the wolves are not yet home free.
  — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• Five wolves soon showed up on her trail.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• On this night, there are no wolf kills.
  — Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The wolves didn’t eat any of those calves.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Mess with one wolf, mess with them all.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026
• But the wolf has rarely been this close to the door.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
• They could be killed by wolves, a male cougar or even a car.
  — Aki Nace, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Talk about being thrown to the wolves!
  — Mike Jones, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
• Some wolves are much faster than others.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• The howling, snarling wolves are at bay.
  — Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
• Dogs aren’t just friendlier wolves.
  — Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 14 May 2026
• What gives wolves their endurance?
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
• That jumps up to 100 yards for bears and wolves.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• The wolf lit out downhill, with the bear hot on his tail.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Meet the wolf claw or as it’s sometimes known, the cat claw.
  — Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
• All the wolves had left — but two, and those two were mated.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Then the black wolf walked, stiff-legged, from behind the bear.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• For tens of millions of years, birds were king, not cats or wolves.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• Silas always had a soft spot for Flo and her wolf.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
• But Campbell will be thrown to the wolves right away.
  — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
• Lynx, bears, and wolves roamed amid the dense Scots pine, birch, and rowan.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
• Dogs are not pack animals in the way wolves are.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
• The wolf is a trophy of which any sportsman can be proud.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Their teeth were quite similar to those of wolves.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• Neither do wolves or ants for that matter.
  — Nathan Rott, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
• More on the decision to kill the wolf.
  — Daily Briefing, AZCentral.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Get ready to cry wolf for the first full moon of 2026.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
• When wolves are on the hunt, a kill rarely goes unnoticed for long.
  — Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026
• Would grizzlies pose the same problems as wolves?
  — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026

wolf

2 of 2 verb

• The campers wolfed down the food, stared into the fire for a few minutes, and stumbled to their tents.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 21 July 2019
• Wednesday reunites with Enid, who is part of the pack now that she’s fully wolfed out.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
• And yes, my stomach hurts after wolfing down the whole thing in a matter of minutes.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2019
• Don’t miss the sweet potato cinnamon roll, with a thick smear of cream-cheese icing, which my kids wolfed down.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 12 Jan. 2018
• Other dogs wolf it down in a matter of seconds, but sometimes eating too fast can make your dog sick.
  — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
• My health-conscious parents would not wolf down a tray of brownies, but wholesome sourdough bread?
  — Henry Dawson, Bon Appétit, 4 Oct. 2019
• As mostly solitary hunters rather than pack animals, like dogs, cats don’t have to wolf their food down to be sure to get their share.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• There are less daunting methods to beat the summer heat than by wolfing down still-boiling chicken soup for lunch.
  — Dave Kim, New York Times, 19 July 2017
• In total, nearly 500 pounds of prime rib are wolfed down before the evening concludes.
  — Jordan Okun, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
• Some fans come simply to root for the home team, to enjoy a day with the family, to wolf down one too many Dodger dogs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• The funny video showed the bulldog grabbing an entire bar out of Peeters' hand and wolfing it down in one bite.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
• Mexicano and my sisters and I would wolf it down whenever Mom made it.
  — Anita L. Arambula, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• Most wolfing periods last somewhere between 4 to 6 weeks, but have been known to go up to 12.
  — Alexander-Julian Gibbson, GQ, 25 May 2018
• The urge to wolf down something sweet may be caused by a sudden spike or drop in glucose and other metabolic changes in the body, researchers have found.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
• By autumn, the caterpillars had wolfed down the leaves, pupated and flown away, leaving our thistle fields in tatters.
  — Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• One explanation is waste, with patients wolfing down too many pills and administrators churning out red tape.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• In the past, participants have had to take on obstacles after wolfing down a warm can of tuna of an entire sleeve of Oreos.
  — Slade Rand, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• For the time being, project assistants buzz around with power tools and lots of questions, pausing occasionally to wolf down slices of pizza.
  — Naomi Waxman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• Group members do not believe there is a threat to wolf populations overall, only those packs in the Denali road corridor.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• The aliens are still out there, of course, and probably getting pretty hungry, having wolfed down so much of Earth's population in the first film.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2020
• Bruce Arians couldn’t wait to wolf down a quick breakfast, shake some hands and pose for some pictures, and then hit the golf course Saturday morning.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2018
• Instead of wolfing down another on-the-fly veggie bowl or sandwich, make your midday meal more of an opportunity for nourishment.
  — Jazmine Polk, Health.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Chestnut has won 17 of the last 19 events, setting a record in 2021 after wolfing down 76 hot dogs and buns.
  — Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
• Outward Hound slow feeders Slow feeders make a game out of mealtime, which both stimulates dog's brains and helps avoid tummy troubles from wolfing down meals.
  — Amy Roberts, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• The new Soviet elite continued to wolf haute cuisine with the same élan as their vodka-swilling Czarist predecessors.
  — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
• Using silverware is one of the biggest struggles of Beaumont's clients, alongside other table errors, like wolfing down food.
  — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
• But is there reality to this perception that liberals can’t stomach gluten, while conservatives can wolf it down without complaint?
  — Trey Malone, The Conversation, 22 Nov. 2019
• America is the world’s second-biggest meat market; the average American wolfs down more than 100kg a year.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
• The actor Marisa Abela plays her in a binary state of panic and swagger by sobbing like a dejected child or slyly grinning like one who’s about to wolf down an ice-cream cake.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
• After wolfing down the food, Rojas said, the couple ordered 10 burritos to go before heading off to the flight back to Denver.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020