she-wolf
Americannoun
plural
she-wolves-
a female wolf.
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a predatory woman.
Example Sentences
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This year, one of Ireland's most haunting creations has been prowling the streets as the sinister she wolf is brought to life for the festival.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
Might the current logo of the lupa, the she wolf, nursing Romulus and Remus — the mythic founding of Rome — be replaced with some cartoonish rendering of the Wolfpack or the Wolverines?
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2011
And I'm hungry as a she wolf too!
From The Eyes of the World by Wright, Harold Bell
“God keep you from the she wolf and from your heart’s deepest desire,” is an old saying of the Rumanians.
From The Untroubled Mind by Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James)
There is an old she wolf with a litter of cubs not far off, and I heard a mighty howling there-a-way after the gates were opened.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
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