Wolf in a sentence as a noun

People have been crying wolf out of fear of this transition for hundereds of years.

The site isn't merely the boy who cried wolf; but rather a boy with a wolf-oriented case of Tourette's.

Very frustrating, builds nothing but distrust from me... like having a friend crying wolf every 10 mins.

Decent thought experiment but the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" part is just link bait title or a really bad analogy.

However, with the partial exception of mathematics and theoretical physics, you cant be a lone wolf in science.

Wolf in a sentence as a verb

Gender discrimination and sexism need to be called out and stopped everywhere, but "crying wolf", without reason, weakens the very moral ground we purport to defend.

Beware a wolf in sheep's clothing...Edit: the downvoters clearly weren't in the industry in the 80's and 90's and haven't dealt with them in the enterprise / volume licensing department recently.

Rather than getting best estimates, they are explicitly requesting that scientists over-estimate the probability of disaster and cry wolf.

He was described as "remote, coldly aloof, ruthless aristocrat, living in lonely magnificence, disdaining the common people... an exceptional man, a lone wolf whose strength and courage could be looked up to, but at the same time had to be feared; an eccentric, misanthropic genius whose haughty bearing, cold eye and steely reserve made it impossible to like or trust him." [Interesting anecdote: He had all the walls of his penthouse office at the Tribune covered with dark wood, including the door, so that after your meeting ended, you would have great difficulty finding the door to get back out, suffering under his humiliating gaze.

Wolf definitions

noun

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

noun

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

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noun

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

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noun

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

See also: masher

noun

a cruelly rapacious person

See also: beast savage brute wildcat

verb

eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"