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How to use carrion in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, adjective

Carrion means rotting flesh of a dead animal or person. Example: “Vultures feed on carrion.”

Examples of carrion by meaning

nounRotting flesh of a dead animal or person.

  • Vultures feed on carrion.
  • Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter X, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC...

More sentences with carrion

  • Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN. From the entry awheel
  • A piece of maggotless carrion was then put in the cage.1927 March, Brandt F. Steele, “Notes on the feeding habits of carrion beetles”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume…. From the entry maggotless
  • God! those carrion black pits of sawed, picked bones and opened skulls!1924, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Rats in the Walls”, in Weird Tales. From the entry pithecanthropoid
  • The very scent of the carrion—faugh—reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.1900 Mary Harriott Norris (editor), 1823 Walter Scott (author), Quentin Durward, American Book Company, page 24. From the entry faugh
  • “Abstain from swineflesh, blood, things offered to idols, and carrion”2007, James D. Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty. From the entry swineflesh
  • Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers.1984, Mark Owens, Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, page 324. From the entry brown hyena
  • Nothing matters here except the occasional sting of a superferocious insect and the far-away hoarse calling of a carrion crow.1946, Noel Mostyn Sedgwick, By Covert Field and Marsh, Herbert Jenkins Limited, page 77. From the entry superferocious
  • Only when he reached the stead road, and Wildebeast, did he concentrate on the image of carrion, of food for the sandwolf pack.2010, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Darknesses, page 25. From the entry stead
  • He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swineflesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah.2010, Kai Borrmann, Jews in the Quran. From the entry swineflesh
  • They eat carrion, but do not hesitate to attack live animals, such as hares, foxes and gooral, a kind of capricorn very like the chamois.1936, H. S. Wood, Glimpses of the Wild: An Observer's Notes and Anecdotes on the Wild Life of Assam, page 84. From the entry gooral
  • The grass rippled and whispered, a mystery on this windless day, and an uneasieness settled over me as the whitebacks rose clumsily into the air, abandoning their carrion.2013, George Makana Clark, The Raw Man, page 168. From the entry whiteback
  • Carrion in woods possibly has a distinctive fauna; the commonest flies are Piophila (especially Pnigriceps) and the heleomyzid Neoleria inscripta while Calliphoridae are less in evidence.1978, Alan Stubbs, A dipterist's handbook, page 119. From the entry heleomyzid
  • The penguins and Tubinares capture cuttlefish and pelagic crustaceans, the giant petrel, or "breakbones," alone obtaining part of its food on shore, since it has a relish for carrion.1922 April, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429. From the entry break-bones
  • The remnant, he accounts Dust, base world's dross; even who divinest spirits; Aye, and every lofty work of theirs bebarks, Presumption, still, with his hot carrion breath.1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain. From the entry bebark

Meaning of carrion

  1. noun Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
  2. noun Corrupt or horrid matter.
  3. noun Filth, garbage.

Full definition of carrion

Questions about carrion in a sentence

How do you use carrion in a sentence?
Carrion is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Vultures feed on carrion.”
What is a short sentence with carrion?
“Vultures feed on carrion.”
What does carrion mean?
Carrion means rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.

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