How to Use cannibal in a Sentence
cannibal
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But one of them is that the conference has been a raging cannibal in the last three seasons.
—John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2020
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Their refuge is set on fire by the cannibals, forcing the trio jump into nearby trees.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 May 2023
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Police gunned down the crazed cannibal, who by then had ripped out the victim's eyes and bitten off half his face.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
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In his next film, Bones and All, Chalamet plays a cannibal.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
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That's when the cannibal hiding inside the wall attacks, and Connie races through the house to survive.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
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Most thought Tyson’s career was over, that he would be considered a pariah for the rest of his life for acting like a cannibal in the ring.
—Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
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On the other side of an expanse of sandy flats, not too far from where the cannibals congregate, is a place called Comfort.
—A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 June 2017
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The other possibility is that some of the girls were willing to go cannibal and some weren't, splitting the group in two.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Jan. 2022
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But after about a week in close quarters with the babies, the deep-down systems start to awaken, and the former cannibal begins to act like a softy around the pups.
—Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
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Sure, the wine was being consumed by a deviant cannibal.
—Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2023
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The survivor, the youngest brother, vowed revenge and eventually beat the cannibal to death.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
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In the other version, a human cannibal killed and ate two of three Tlingit brothers.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
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To call someone a molester and cannibal of children is to mark them for death, just as the persecuters of Jews did for centuries in Europe.
—Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
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Showbiz cannibals and a greedy celebrity press were chewing her up.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
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Her captors are bodybuilding cannibals who proceed to chop off her right arm and leg.
—Rick Bentley, kansascity.com, 22 June 2017
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There have been a lot of cannibals popping up in pop culture recently.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
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In the movie, a group of teenagers falls prey to a clan of cannibals, including the notorious chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.
—Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
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Our favorite teenage cannibals will have to go on a diet after Friday.
—Vulture, 26 May 2023
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But cannibals capture her and plan to keep the cure for themselves, unless she is rescued by our hero, played by a muscle-bound, scowling Jean-Claude Van Damme armed with a sabre.
—Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
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In this dystopian horror thriller, a young woman is captured by cannibals.
—Sharon Hoffmann, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
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Enter the home — and twisted mind — of fictional serial killer Clyde Bailey, and learn through lots of screams what drove the madman to become a cannibal.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, The Arizona Republic, 13 Oct. 2014
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Parents, siblings and offspring share their genetic makeup, and eating them means deleting more of the cannibal’s own DNA from the gene pool.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2022
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For all intents and purposes, Harvey Keitel gets one scene to work with as Gondo, the leader of a pack of dogs that are rumored to be cannibals.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
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The film is both brutal and beautiful, and Mark Rylance — as a fellow cannibal — plays one of the creepier movie characters in recent years.
—Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
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An unnamed man and boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, fending off cannibals and despair.
—oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2020
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Users also posted gruesome images of human arms and other body parts and falsely claimed that the Rohingya were cannibals.
—New York Times, 14 June 2019
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For his first project since 2022’s Bones & All, Luca Guadagnino has shifted his focus from overwrought teenage cannibals to the equally cutthroat world of pro tennis.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 20 June 2023
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Sebastian Stan is playing a cannibal (or maybe a vampire?
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 25 Feb. 2022
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Every foot of the joint is covered with hundreds of ghosts, goblins, crazed clowns, rusty weapons of mayhem, psycho beasts, cannibals, zombies and other lunatics.
—John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
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The 58-year-old Danish actor has played cold-hearted billionaires and evil sorcerers, skinheads and Vikings, Nazis and serial-killing cannibals.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
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