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• Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.From the entry lappet
• I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.From the entry drive away
• The circle of vultures was not a good auspice.From the entry auspice
• The vulture flew over the desert.From the entry over
• Across the blue sky, a big black bird, a vulture, a corbeau.2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter, →ISBN, page 317. From the entry corbeau
• With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the…. From the entry crop
• The whiteback is a close relative of a vulture you may have seen in Africa.2012, Richard Ives, Of Tigers and Men. From the entry whiteback
• Vultures are often seen standing in what is called a horaltic pose.2008, Marta Magellan, Those Voracious Vultures, page 47. From the entry horaltic
• Be a culture vulture by going to the ballet, opera or a classical concert.2004, Susie Whalley, Lisa Jackson, “Get Set for Success”, in Running Made Easy, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry culture vulture
• But when we reach the vortex of vultures, there he is.2002, Deborah Copaken, Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War, Random House Publishing Group, page 143. From the entry vortex
• Those wogs you′ve been duchessing at Ethnic Affairs have got nothing on the culture vultures.1996, Shane Maloney, The Brush-Off, published 2003, page 46. From the entry duchess
• The siafus, together with the hyena, jackal and vulture, are the great scavengers of Kenya.1957, William W. Baldwin, Mau Mau Man-hunt, page 216. From the entry siafu
• A human vulture, God sent thee The world's great scavenger to be.1900, Johnstone, Julian E, Songs of Sun and Shadow, →OCLC. From the entry scumber
• In as little as twenty minutes, a venue of vultures can rip apart and dispose of an eight-hundred-pound cow carcass.2017, Jim Robbins, The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future, Random House Publishing Group…. From the entry venue
• When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry rot
• Livestock husbandry, it turns out, is essential to vulture welfare.2016 January, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.…. From the entry husbandry
• Maybe a little sponsorship) And I'm giving you first hayo at it before I mention it to the WNBR vultures.2014 January 10, Halley Weaver, “Location”, in The Bike Fair (Google Groups), archived from the original on 15 Apr 2026. From the entry okaysies
• There’s probably no other town in the world that offers such a bizarre mix of culture vultures and booze cruisers.2009 January 11, David Whitley, “Two beers or not two beers?: Denmark”, in The Sun-Herald, page 22. From the entry booze cruiser
• Actually, we joke – we call it the vulture bee.2005 June 17, “Interview: Keith Delaplane and Stephen Buchmann discuss the health of bee populations around the world”, in Science Friday…. From the entry vulture bee
• But rather than slurp up pollen and nectar from flowers as most bees do, vulture bees gather meat.2004 September 6, Jeanna Bryner, “Bee got your tongue?”, in Science World, volume 61, page 21. From the entry vulture bee
• My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.2001, Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson, Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books…. From the entry sony
• Around 59th and Lexington, where Dry Dock Savings Bank is located, pickings are lush for the purple-pantsuited culture vulture.1970 March 9, “The Culture Vulture's Swoop through Dry Dock Country [advertisement]”, in New York, volume 3, number 10, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry culture vulture
• The caracara's flight is direct and rapid, not at all like that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106. From the entry caracara
• On Pincushion, the slow vortex of vultures guides me back to earlier vultures circling a blown-out tire on Interstate 5 somewhere north of Eugene, Oregon.2019, Matt Rader, Visual Inspection, Harbour Publishing Company Limited. From the entry vortex
• A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes.2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the…. From the entry sizable
• As the two of them dragged the three of us into the elevator, garbled franticities were whistling about my head like starving vultures.2001, Tony Vigorito, Just a Couple of Days, Columbus, Ohio: Bast Books, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry franticity
• The Two Ladies name (nebty) identifies the king with the vulture goddess Nekhbet and the cobra goddess Wadjet, representing Upper and Lower Egypt respectively.1989, Daphna Ben-Tor, The scarab: a reflection of ancient Egypt, page 15. From the entry Two Ladies name
• Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 58. From the entry lawnmower
• We could see the poor brute in the bottom, as the vultures came wheeling down like baroque aeroplanes; its ribs were already bare.1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 8. From the entry wheel
• These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.2015 July 8, “Argentina’s Debt”, in New York Times. From the entry unrestructured
• So a self-confessed culture vulture is a member of communities on authors, sudoku, films, chocolates and sapiosexuality (sapiosexuals are people who are apparently turned on by intelligence).2008 August 17, Mohua Das, Malini Banerjee, “Virtual Vanities”, in The Telegraph, Calcutta. From the entry sapiosexuality
• The Two Ladies painted on a coffin: On the left Nekhbet as a vulture wearing the White Crown; on the right Wadjyt as a cobra wearing the Red Crown.1999, Geraldine Harris, Delia Pemberton, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. From the entry Two Ladies
• Yet in the young man's imagination "His Highness the vulture" has clearly regained imperial and ascensional status, radically undoing its original association with death and destruction.1993, Bernard Aresu, Counterhegemonic Discourse from the Maghreb, page 1993. From the entry ascensional
• Rudino sees the albino girl, still sitting on the ground, and two black vultures at the top of an imbuzeiro, clearing their throats like old men.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 289. From the entry imbuzeiro
• Vultures seem to have been used for a funeral practice of excarnation: after the flesh had been cleaned from the bones, the bones were interred in the shrines.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry excarnation
• There is Mali, there is Guinea, you are about to say— but our loans to Mali and Guinea, my young know-everythings, are like fish to vultures; the stomach remains empty.1984, Dave Godfrey, The new ancestors, page 276. From the entry know-everything

Meaning of vulture

1. noun Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
2. noun A person who profits from the suffering of others.
3. verb To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

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How do you use vulture in a sentence?

Vulture is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.”

What is a short sentence with vulture?

“The vulture flew over the desert.”

What does vulture mean?

Vulture means any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.