How to Use gray wolf in a Sentence

gray wolf

noun
  • Their nearest relative, the gray wolf, still roams forests and tundras.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • After about 10 minutes a gray wolf streaked out of the timber and grabbed a big cow by the flank.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The 3-year-old female gray wolf when it was collared in 2025.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The average gray wolf lives between three and four years in the Rocky Mountains.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The gray wolf is protected as an endangered species under state and federal law.
    — Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The Mexican gray wolf has had a rough summer, out on the range and in the rooms where laws and regulations are written and enforced.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This month, a lone gray wolf was spotted in Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century.
    — Jonathan Wood, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The gray wolf howled, trotted back and forth, and gradually worked closer and closer to the nervous but fascinated caribou.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • One day — when all six adults were lying about, sleeping after a night of hunting — a big gray wolf, strange to the group, showed up on a ridge and trotted casually toward the den.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • After his partners had been gone a few minutes, the big gray wolf openly ran to within 100 yards of the caribou, sat down in plain sight, and started to howl.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • LaMalfa has warned that the voices of rural voters will be silenced; gray wolf attacks on cattle ranches are a hot-button issue in his district.
    — Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Around the end of 2008, the year before Montana opened its first gray wolf-hunting season, animus against the predators reached a boiling point.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2026
  • A couple of months earlier, Van Bebber had acquired a three-year-old female gray wolf from a trader up on the Tanana River.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The record-setting gray wolf’s satellite signature entered the park on Sunday, May 17, Dewar said.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • But some wonder if allowing the wolves to move to higher latitudes and mingle with other northern gray wolf populations might be a better solution to their long-term survival.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • While Canada plays host to fascinating megafauna spanning from the polar bear to the gray wolf to the muskox, there’s one park in particular that offers a deep dive into the nation’s prehistoric past.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • More on the wolf making headlines While BEY03F is classified as a gray wolf, photos show her coat appears blackish-gray.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • After being wiped out in California for nearly a century, the gray wolf has been making a comeback in the state, in a change that's been celebrated by conservationists and wildlife lovers.
    — NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years gray wolf reintroduction and a petition (and subsequent ballot measure that didn’t pass) to ban big cat hunting in the state have divided conservationists of different stripes.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But the temperature variation between different gray wolf population groups is fairly similar.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
  • For the dire wolf, the Colossal team had to make just 20 edits on 14 genes to give a gray wolf the dire wolf’s white coat, larger size, more powerful bite, more robust fat distribution, and other key traits.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently re-released a gray wolf in Grand County after it was recaptured in New Mexico.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The endangered Mexican gray wolf population in Arizona and New Mexico has grown to 319, a record high.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Colorado voters in 2020 voted 51% to 49% to bring the gray wolf back to the state, with a majority of the support coming from the urban Front Range.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In 2011, California confirmed the existence of a wild gray wolf in the state for the first time in nearly 90 years after the native species had been considered locally extinct.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The Nez Perce Tribe has led other species restoration efforts in Idaho, including spearheading gray wolf reintroduction in the 1990s.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Legislation he's introduced recently includes ending an exception to a visa program that universities use for hard-to-fill jobs and delisting the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • First gray wolf sighting in a century Wildlife groups say a gray wolf has been detected in Sequoia National Park for the first time in over 100 years, Saleen Martin reports.
    — Kristin Scharkey, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • The killing of a Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico by federal wildlife agencies has sparked concerns among wolf advocacy groups who say the actions, even if authorized, are harmful to the recovery efforts of the endangered species.
    — Daily Briefing, AZCentral.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The killing of a Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico by federal wildlife agencies has sparked concerns among wolf advocacy groups who say the actions, even if authorized, are harmful to the recovery efforts of the endangered species.
    — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025

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