How to Use wolverine in a Sentence

wolverine

noun

• No creature of the Far North is less beloved than the wolverine.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Fox were worth 20 bucks, wolverine about $90, and wolves a bit more.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• One set of wolverine tracks and a half-dozen old marten crossings was the extent of life.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
• The wolverine, which is a relative of the mink and weasel, is found across Alaska.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The wolverine weighed 28 pounds and measured 41 inches in length.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• This wolverine was near the Mammoth Hot Springs on a remote trail.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2021
• The wolverine was spotted on an elk hunter’s trail camera on the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
• The largest land-dwelling species in the weasel family, wolverines often look like small bears.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• Contrary to the name, the wolverine isn’t closely related to wolves.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• Sometimes resembling a small bear with a bushy tail, the wolverine is the largest land-dweller of the weasel family.
  — Kelsie Smith, CNN, 20 Aug. 2020
• Wolverines fans are all in with Jim Harbaugh, but two years is still the honeymoon phase.
  — Ralph D. Russo, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
• The mountain pass where the wolverine was seen on video is roughly 136 miles southeast of Portland.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Climate change has been a threat to wolverines in the U.S. for more than a decade; the loss of the wolverine's wintry habitat has been linked to climate change.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The agency said the new closure would provide refuge for wildlife like mountain goats, lynx and wolverines.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Four European brown bears, five wolves, two Eurasian lynx and two wolverines will make their home at Bear Wood.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 July 2019
• Over the course of two afternoons, a wolverine appeared on a hill below ours.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2016
• Remote cameras have been used since 2014 to keep track of cougars in the park, but this was the first time a wolverine has been caught on a camera, the park wrote on Facebook.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2021
• The next year the park service said a second litter of wolverine young was born in Mount Rainier National Park.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• The wolverine can be heard vocalizing as the two scuffle.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
• Utah state officials have captured a live wolverine and fitted it with a GPS collar for the first time ever in the state.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• The wolverine was spotted by two people fishing in the river, which is near Portland.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Apparently, the flight to Davos was a real delight, like being trapped in a steel tube with two wolverines and a hand grenade.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2018
• Scientists in Utah have captured, collared and released a wolverine for the first time.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2022
• After spotting a wolverine running through the snow, the searchers contacted DWR rather than shoot the rare predator.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• For animals like wolverines and monarch butterflies, this could be the beginning of the end.
  — Adam Aton, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2019
• Alaskans were proud of his wolverine ferocity in the Senate.
  — Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
• Some highlights: Our boss shares in a story about a wolverine encounter in Glacier National Park.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020
• While Dall sheep move down the mountain in winter, whitetails are left to fend for themselves against the ermine and wolverines that rely on them for protein.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2020
• In addition to caribou, the park’s many mammal species include moose, grey wolves, brown bears, wolverines, arctic foxes, snowshoe hares and muskox, which are native to Alaska.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
• The long slender blades, like the claws of a giant wolverine, are stacked in the port of New Bedford, ready to be barged out to sea and assembled onto turbines that believers say will help power America’s future.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2024