How to Use wolverine in a Sentence

wolverine

noun
Definition of wolverinenext
  • 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
  • Here, grizzly bears, wolverines, and mountain goats make their homes, and glaciers still cling to the highest summits, on lands to which the Blackfeet, Selis, Qlispe, and Ksanka tribes have ancestral ties.
    — Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2023
  • So much for Friedman’s bill to reintroduce wolverines to California, though.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024

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