Example Sentences

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At a recent performance, the message seemed like a follow-up to the first act, a way to explain the presence of a wolflike dog that stalked Sigmund and Sieglinde like an angel of death.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Now the wolflike creature—also known as the Tasmanian tiger—is poised to become an emblem of de-extinction, an initiative that seeks to create new versions of lost species.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022

I fell asleep listening to a wolflike bark echoing in the trees, the sound of the rushing water in the creek.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

Some of his dogs are allowed inside; others live outdoors, and now and then strike wolflike poses at the summit of the boulder.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Nothing could taste or smell or be good ever again, because not only was she a Spare, not only did she have to defeat the legendary wolflike Nightbeast, but she was still a Witchling too.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega