Sentence example with the word 'wolfish'

wolfish

all-devouring, bestial, brutish, diabolic, fell, grabby, infernal, predacious, sanguinary, starving, voracious

Definition adj. resembling or characteristic

Last update: June 11, 2015


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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.   [Please select]

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Our eyes seemed very large and wolfish.   [Please select]

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Their eyes lifted from Francisco to the Americans, and in them shone a wolfish gleam.   [Please select]

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He takes a perfectly normal, and even slightly wolfish, interest in the female of his species.   [Please select]

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There are no hard times on the Zone, no hurried, worried faces, no famished, wolfish eyes.   [Please select]

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Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility.   [Please select]

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He would lead a wolfish life, though again and again it brought him into wolfish misfortunes.   [Please select]

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He showed dirty yellow teeth in a wolfish snarl, and his only answer was a lifted rifle and a crooked forefinger.   [Please select]

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The old man snatched it from her, and, biting off a piece, began to chew with a sort of wolfish voracity.   [Please select]

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With wolfish desire he grasped the food, and ate as he never ate before.   [Please select]

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The girls were not in the least scared by the wolfish concert.   [Please select]

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