How to Use dire wolf in a Sentence

dire wolf

noun
  • The dire wolf is just the start.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Tell him about how the dire wolf thinks that the horse is his mother.
    — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The same point applies to the ecosystem of the dire wolf.
    — JSTOR Daily, 13 Nov. 2025
  • So did the dire wolf, the mammoth and the giant ground sloth.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Tell him about the horse and the dire wolf cub’s unlikely friendship.
    — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Leader of the dire wolf pack That pack will likely be growing.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • And then there’s certain pop culture elements like the dire wolf, right?
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The dire wolf genome likely differs from that of the gray wolf in millions or tens of millions of ways.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Riding the rails, I was beaten and killed and reported back to the dire wolf.
    — Harold Goldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • From there, Colossal elected to use a close relative of the dire wolf as the base.
    — Jon Schlosberg, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The truth is that Colossal didn’t re-create the dire wolf of prehistoric times.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The dire wolf is a species believed to have disappeared more than 10,000 years ago.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Thus the dearth of dire wolves, versus the proliferation of darling dachshunds.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Many scientists and reporters expressed skepticism about the claim that this amounts to restoring the dire wolf.
    — Elay Shech, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • Colossal used those samples to discover the dire wolf’s key traits in its DNA.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Hundreds of dire wolf skulls line the walls of the California museum.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Rather than being excited, many people were mocking and ridiculing the return of the dire wolf.
    — Callum Booth, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Impressive, sure, but not exactly bringing back the dire wolf from extinction.
    — Callum Booth, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The company became famous for efforts to revive extinct species such as the woolly mammoth and dire wolf.
    — Dasha Shunina, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Soon, the wolves were joined on their private 2,000-acre preserve by a third dire wolf, their cloned sister, Khaleesi.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • One of the most bizarre aspects of dire wolf evolution is their solitary presence in the Americas.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The company revealed the recent successful birth of three snowy white dire wolf puppies – an animal that was extinct.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Well, Lasher and his dire wolf familiar — oh, Lasher has a dire wolf familiar, by the way — attack.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Inside, the front desk is flanked by an animatronic dire wolf and a life-size acrylic woolly mammoth peering out from what appears to be a massive block of ice.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026

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