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wolves

American  
[woolvz] / wʊlvz /

noun

  1. the plural of wolf.


wolves British  
/ wʊlvz /

noun

  1. the plural of wolf

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Example Sentences

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An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.

From Los Angeles Times

One day faded into another as I told her stories, all the stories she had told me about witches, and trolls, and wolves, and ogres.

From Literature

Is Dunk, after all this, going to decide to save this kid who is just going to be thrown to the wolves otherwise?

From Los Angeles Times

The French government said Monday it would authorise the shooting of wolves that attack livestock even outside protected enclosures, a policy shift welcomed by farmers, a powerful and increasingly disgruntled constituency.

From Barron's

“Unlike dogs who can mate a couple times a year, come into heat a couple times a year, wolves aren’t that way,” said Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity.

From Los Angeles Times