How to Use dire wolf in a Sentence

dire wolf

noun
  • Tell him about how the dire wolf thinks that the horse is his mother.
    — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Thousands of years ago, prey animals fell into the seeps, made a ruckus, and attracted predators such as the saber-tooth cat and the dire wolf.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Sabertooth cats also lived among the dire wolf, stag-moose, muskox, giant short-face bears, bison, and mammoth.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • 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 of the most bizarre aspects of dire wolf evolution is their solitary presence in the Americas.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Well, Lasher and his dire wolf familiar — oh, Lasher has a dire wolf familiar, by the way — attack.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • That means their extinction left behind no hybridized offspring that could have passed on traces of dire wolf DNA to living canines.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Colossal Biosciences said it's created three dire wolf puppies.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The study Perri participated in opens up whole new avenues of investigation into the life and evolution of the dire wolf.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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

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