Wolf

//wʊlf//

"Wolf" in a Sentence (21 examples)

We are trying to keep the wolf from the door.

Thousands of Americans have a hard time keeping the wolf from the door.

The boy said a wolf would come.

John is as lean as a wolf.

You cannot tame a wolf.

I heard a wolf crying.

One day she met a wolf in the woods.

You might as well reason with the wolf as try to persuade that man.

He is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Have you ever seen a wolf?

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He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves.

The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

the bee wolf

“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side

The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth

"Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."

After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.

Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.

[1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’

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