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Example sentences for "wolfish"

Lexicographically close words:
wole; wolen; wolf; wolfed; wolfhound; wolframite; wolfs; wolfskin; woll; wolle
  1. I imagine at once that he must be dreaming of the old hag and her wolfish shadow.

  2. Surrounding them were several fierce, wolfish Indian dogs, among whom Jack and Cuffy, wild and furious, were now making dire havoc.

  3. Out in the chamber the pirates had hurled aside the slaves, and, flinging open the chests, were glaring with wolfish eyes and dripping jaws at the bewildering mass of treasure revealed.

  4. Is felt wolfish all over a fine phrase?

  5. Does the fact that Crockett felt wolfish all over show that he was determined to fight, or that he had real grit?

  6. All mounted volunteers and all determined to fight, judging from myself, for I felt wolfish all over.

  7. The priest's thin lips parted, showing a glimmer of wolfish teeth behind the pale stretched line of flesh.

  8. He stopped suddenly, intimidated by the cruel glare of the wolfish eyes above him.

  9. If it has been possible in the state to tame the wolfish instincts of the individual and to make him bow down before Custom and Law, it must be equally possible to do so in the relations of states to one another.

  10. You must break yourself of this tone, and of wolfish manners generally; that would be the first step towards unaffected manhood.

  11. Is it thou that hath sunk him in slothfulness, so that the wolfish lords and tyrant barons upon his marchlands begin to creep out of their castleholds, and tear and maim his people and wrest from them and him broad lands and fertile fields?

  12. Few loved him, for he was never cheery nor very friendly, and ever seemed to sneer with his thin lips and his cold wolfish eyes.

  13. In order to save something, I gave to their wolfish dogs all the fish I had, which was sufficient for my eight for several days.

  14. We hung up in the trees our sleds and harness beyond the reach of the wolfish curs, which in large numbers prowled around.

  15. For fully a minute Mr. Hennage's small baleful eyes flicked murder lights as their glance burned into O'Rourke's wolfish soul.

  16. My eyes glittered with a wolfish greed, but I restrained myself.

  17. I walked about with a wolfish startled glance, scanning the ground eagerly, as if expecting Mother Earth to relieve me of my torment.

  18. He made no reply, but turned such a wolfish look upon me that I hastily told him to dive into my cell--No.

  19. Gaunt figures with pinched faces and staring wolfish eyes slunk about the camp ready to seize anything in the form of food.

  20. If, within the first thousand years after the Deluge, we observe that divine honours were paid to him, we can scarcely be brought to believe his wolfish genealogy.

  21. As they went on with these preparations, looking to the repulse of invading hosts of sleek gray-coated beasts of prey, they could hear the fiendish chorus of wolfish howls drawing steadily nearer all the while.

  22. Jack, as a further rushing sound announced the arrival of a second detachment of the escaped wolfish horde.

  23. The clamor of wolfish tongues was very close at hand, and with what seemed to be a full dozen joining in the yelping orgy it certainly went to make up a fiendish noise.

  24. A reminiscence of the direct propitiation of the fierce and dangerous beasts themselves is preserved in the legends told to explain the origin of the Lyceum or Place of Wolves at Athens and of the sanctuary of Wolfish Apollo at Sicyon.

  25. Various legends set forth how the god received the title of Wolfish because he exterminated wolves;(847) indeed this function was definitely attributed to him by the epithet Wolf-slayer.

  26. White and flecked with sweat-drops, marbled here and there with livid stains, the lips quivering and working till they twisted themselves sometimes into a ghastly mockery of a smile, the long teeth gleaming more wolfish than ever.

  27. Through a half open door on the lower story he caught a glimpse of a haggard face lighted up by wolfish eyes, and heard a savage, growling voice.

  28. He looked quite wolfish at last, for it was a habit he had to show his white teeth more when he was savage than when he smiled.

  29. I know it made me more wolfish than ever I thought it possible to feel, for I am a good-natured man in the main.

  30. Their wolfish teeth were very white as they waited for him with parted lips, and there was an odd blue light in their eyes which is not often seen south of Goth-land.

  31. The lads took the stuff thankfully and crunched the stony balls with white, wolfish teeth.

  32. Never had a more rapturous smile of sensuality revealed the wolfish teeth of his voracious mouth.

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

  34. The big, wolfish creatures loved him and they feared him.

  35. These dogs are big wolfish creatures, which resemble wolves so closely in fact that when the dogs and wolves are together the one can scarcely be told from the other.

  36. A dozen sheep were in the rear of the ponies, and were kept from straying by some of the men and by two or three wolfish looking dogs.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wolfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animal; atrocious; barbaric; barbarous; beastly; bestial; bloodthirsty; bloody; brutal; brute; canine; cruel; demoniacal; devilish; diabolic; diabolical; empty; extortionate; famished; fasting; fell; feral; ferocious; fiendish; fierce; foxy; grasping; grim; hellish; hungering; hungry; infernal; inhuman; lupine; murderous; parasitic; predacious; predatory; rapacious; raptorial; ravenous; ruthless; sadistic; sanguinary; savage; starved; truculent; unchristian; uncivilized; unfilled; unhuman; vicious; voracious; vulpine; wolfish