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    Use "wolfish" in a sentence

    wolfish example sentences

    wolfish


    1. All the heads were lupine, all female, all with gaping, wolfish mouths full of teeth the size of grindstones


    2. “Surprised to see me out of custody, I might imagine?” he queried with a wolfish grin


    3. He bit his lip, and then a wolfish grin cracked across his visage


    4. There was a wolfish hardness about him that marked the barbarian


    5. The Cimmerian's table manners were rather wolfish at any time


    6. Up there among those hills lurked thousands of wolfish figures out of whose hearts and souls all emotion and hope had been scourged except a frenzied hate for their conquerors, a mad lust for vengeance


    7. I wouldn’t hurt him, but he may hurt himself on me,” he said, giving her a wolfish smile


    8. Jared gave Sam a wolfish grin


    9. baring their teeth in wide wolfish grins of relief, while feasting their eyes lustfully


    10. " He smiles his wolfish smile

    11. " The smile took on a wolfish cast


    12. Loken’s bared his teeth in a wolfish grin


    13. Loken's wolfish face lit up in a grin


    14. Mary's own wolfish gaze turned stiffly about her new surroundings


    15. Apparently finding nothing worth dwelling on, his gaze made it back to the coffins, then to Mary's intercepting wolfish eyes that always made him melt a little


    16. He shook his head and flashed a wolfish white grin


    17. But he caught himself up, looked straight into Hanna's eyes, gave her a wolfish grin and said: "Yes, here and now!"


    18. “You could have joined us, you know,” he said with a wolfish grin


    19. “Why would you risk so much for this bygone relic of the past?” Asked the Baron with a wolfish smile, as he held up a hefty looking book, with a black cover, that had the Holy Bible written on it


    20. What the hell was I doing, giving him ideas? He seemed to consider this for a second, the wolfish expression hauntingly human

    21. Pray, don't imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He's not a rough diamond---a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man


    22. ” He gives me a brief wolfish smile


    23. But on first entering these three things, the gramophone for its noise - it was playing a French record of jazz band - the stove for its smell, and the young man for his wolfish look, struck my senses


    24. The wolfish grin had disappeared just as suddenly as it had appeared a moment before


    25. Pray, don’t imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He’s not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man


    26. I was physically influenced by the atmosphere and scene, and my ears were filled with the curses the maniac still shrieked out; wherein she momentarily mingled my name with such a tone of demon-hate, with such language!—no professed harlot ever had a fouler vocabulary than she: though two rooms off, I heard every word—the thin partitions of the West India house opposing but slight obstruction to her wolfish cries


    27. The Lincoln hills rose up around me at the extremity of a snowy plain, in which I did not remember to have stood before; and the fishermen, at an indeterminable distance over the ice, moving slowly about with their wolfish dogs, passed for sealers, or Esquimaux, or in misty weather loomed like fabulous creatures, and I did not know whether they were giants or pygmies


    28. The child started and stared up at her, as if such sudden, amazing good luck almost frightened her; then she snatched up the bun and began to cram it into her mouth with great wolfish bites


    29. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world


    30. Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings

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    Synonyms for "wolfish"

    edacious esurient rapacious ravening ravenous voracious wolfish wolflike

    "wolfish" definitions

    resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf


    devouring or craving food in great quantities