How to Use cannibal in a Sentence

cannibal

noun

• But one of them is that the conference has been a raging cannibal in the last three seasons.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2020
• Their refuge is set on fire by the cannibals, forcing the trio jump into nearby trees.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 May 2023
• 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
• In his next film, Bones and All, Chalamet plays a cannibal.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sure, the wine was being consumed by a deviant cannibal.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2023
• The survivor, the youngest brother, vowed revenge and eventually beat the cannibal to death.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
• In the other version, a human cannibal killed and ate two of three Tlingit brothers.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
• 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
• Showbiz cannibals and a greedy celebrity press were chewing her up.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Her captors are bodybuilding cannibals who proceed to chop off her right arm and leg.
  — Rick Bentley, kansascity.com, 22 June 2017
• There have been a lot of cannibals popping up in pop culture recently.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Our favorite teenage cannibals will have to go on a diet after Friday.
  — Vulture, 26 May 2023
• 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
• In this dystopian horror thriller, a young woman is captured by cannibals.
  — Sharon Hoffmann, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An unnamed man and boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, fending off cannibals and despair.
  — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Sebastian Stan is playing a cannibal (or maybe a vampire?
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 25 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024