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- noun Alternative form of
wolfpack .
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Examples
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It had not been mighty enough to face the organized wolf-pack of society.
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The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd, singling out the weak and the big with calf, and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand, thousand generations into the past.
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The dog was thoroughly alive to its danger, but it was running on the outer circle while the wolf-pack was running on the inner and shorter circle.
The Hunger Cry 2010
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Henry knew that the wolf-pack, One Ear, and Bill were coming together.
The Hunger Cry 2010
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Thus, he was strong from the two days 'eating a lynx had afforded him when the hungry wolf-pack ran full tilt upon him.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010
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Part I of the novel, primarily description of setting, ends with the hungry wolf-pack almost killing the men.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010
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Instead, says the research, we depend on the people who actually raised us, albeit wolf-pack style: our friends.
The Divorce Generation Susan Gregory Thomas 2011
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He seems to be the most outgoing of the wolf-pack guys.
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Far and faint it was, in the remote distance, the cry of the hungry wolf-pack as it took the trail of other meat than the man it had just missed.
The Hunger Cry 2010
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The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd, singling out the weak and the big with calf, and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand, thousand generations into the past.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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