wolflike
IPA: wˈʊɫfɫaɪk
adjective
- Resembling or characteristic of a wolf.
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Examples of "wolflike" in Sentences
- The paper called the assault "wolflike" in a front-page headline.
- Arkansas, man was walking his dogs when they ran into four "wolflike" creatures.
- He has taken it upon himself to tend to the town's abandoned cats and dogs, including the wolflike Aki.
- The twenty or so mangy, wolflike canines bared their teeth and howled before taking off for a dowdy Soviet-style municipal building.
- MORPHED: WHEN WHALES HAD LEGS examines the environmental pressures that turned a wolflike creature that hunted in shallow waters into a leviathan of the seas.
- The flight attendant looks at me in horror as Abraham Lincoln breaks free from the carrier and leaps onto my lap, still screeching, his mouth pulled back in a wolflike grimace.
- While they share a bunch of traits that seem superficially more 'wolflike' than more 'derived' breeds-- less obedient, more pack oriented, single annual estrous, more likely to howl and yodel than bark a lot, den- digging-- they still fall strongly on the dog rather than wolf side of the divide behaviorally, still have more neotenic skulls, up- curled tails, still watch humans for cues and want to please-- the whole suite of things Darren mentioned, and more.
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