Example Sentences

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But, of course, part of what makes it so poignant is knowing that in real life, Vanessa would not always be able to rescue Virginia from her wolfishness, that it would return.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2020

They even shrewdly set it a decade earlier in the ’80s, when Wall Street wolfishness was at its zenith.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2017

Over the next week Maddie pieced together the pilot’s story in a storm of newspaper clippings with the mental wolfishness of Lady Macbeth.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Within that ring, Dusty Star felt himself in a world, in which, every moment, the wolfishness of things grew more enormous, excluding everything besides.

From Dusty Star by Baker, Olaf

She had always disliked the girl, and now her weak mildness and humility suddenly transformed themselves into something else—a sort of maternal wolfishness.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson