How to Use dire wolf in a Sentence

dire wolf

noun

• Tell him about the horse and the dire wolf cub’s unlikely friendship.
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
• Many people saw and came to know him as the 'dire wolf' in the viral photo 2 years ago.
  — Fox 35 News Staff, FOX 35 Orlando, 17 Nov. 2020
• Riding the rails, I was beaten and killed and reported back to the dire wolf.
  — Harold Goldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• But hunting down the DNA of the mysterious dire wolf is no easy task.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2021
• Pronghorn evolved to outrun the now-extinct North American cheetah, dire wolf, and short-faced bear.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2020
• The last common ancestor of the gray wolf and dire wolf lived about 5.7 million years ago, the researchers reported.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• Cats like the saber-tooth, lion, and cougar hunted in forests, while canine species like the dire wolves hunted bison and horses in open fields.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2019
• Turn the clock back 1.8 million years, and the world was full of fantastic beasts: In North America, lions, dire wolves and giant sloths prowled the land.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
• Hundreds of dire wolf skulls line the walls of the California museum.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
• Thus the dearth of dire wolves, versus the proliferation of darling dachshunds.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
• Among them were the remains of dire wolves, camels, horses and gophers—but the most intriguing were those belonging to an adult male mastodon.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• In addition to her new throne, Turner also has a more permanent reminder of her time on the show: a dire wolf tattoo on the back of her arm.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2020
• Howard has scanned items ranging in size from squirrel and rabbit bones to a bison's rib, as well as jaw and long bones from dire wolves, horses, big cats, camels and coyotes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• One wolf dog in particular seemed to bond with Cole in a way that's totally reminiscent of Jon Snow and his dire wolf Ghost.
  — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 16 July 2018
• Their tracks are preserved in the alkali flats of the valley floor—mammoth, dire wolf, saber-toothed cat, North American camel, and giant ground sloth, all dating back to the last ice age.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• But dire wolf aside, let’s not kid ourselves that Harington did a fraction of the dramatic heavy lifting required of Porter and Madden on their first-year shows.
  — Glenn Whipp, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Perri and her colleagues also recovered proteins from the collagen of a La Brea dire wolf, which supported the split between the species.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
• Children's show offerings included Dire Guys (a cartoon featuring baby dire wolves) and Hodor's House (which seems a bit too soon).
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2019
• For instance, using Snapchat to drop a dire wolf into your living room could demonstrate its size and strength much more powerfully than a description in a textbook could.
  — Sam Jones, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2022
• The Stark house symbol and loyal companions to the six Stark children, are based on the now-extinct dire wolves of the prehistoric era, but fans are looking to large dog breeds for their similar appearances as pets.
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2019
• But dire wolves—oversized, extra-powerful wolves—are real.
  — National Geographic, 6 May 2019
• Spoiler: King Joffrey eventually died after being poisoned, but not before killing Sansa's father and her dire wolf.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 27 Mar. 2019
• In the new study, researchers scoured North America trying to extract genetic samples from dozens of dire wolf remains at universities and museums.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
• Handle the tooth The scientists studied more than 700 fossil teeth collected from La Brea that once belonged to various herbivores as well as saber-tooth cats, American lions, dire wolves, cougars, coyotes, and grey wolves.
  — John Pickrell, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2019
• In the warehouse’s sculpting area, creatives carefully attach fur to an animatronic dire wolf — an extinct, prehistoric carnivore — often stringing just 10 strands of hair through the needle at a time.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024