Example Sentences

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At last, however, it was determined that Trencherman Tucker had wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient�a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx.

From Time Magazine Archive

I understood why JoJo had wolfed it down.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

The drifters had wolfed down the last morsel.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

"An hour's sleep," said Daw, when they had wolfed pounds of straight moose-meat fried with bacon.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

He had wolfed down his morning Koffee-Kup with one eye on the clock and one eye on his growing sense of impending crisis.

From Meeting of the Board by Nourse, Alan Edward