How to Use carcass in a Sentence

carcass

noun
  • Bear tracks near a salmon carcass along the banks of the Naknek River.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Some of their bodies burned to ash in the carcass of scorched cars.
    Hollie McKay, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • At the base of the hills is an elk carcass, and somewhere in the trees above it, a small pack of wolves.
    Angela Owens, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • There's all kinds of things that want to eat a small dead carcass.
    Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The whole carcass must be retrieved, not just the antlers or hide.
    Mead Gruver, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Once all the meat has fallen off the carcass, fish out the bones and start adding in your roux.
    Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Place the carcasses and skin in a large saucepan or small pot.
    Sheri Castle, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The message is clear: if there’s a whale carcass in the area, best to stay out of the water.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • And once that chicken is picked clean, the carcass is ready for stock.
    Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Get rid of the carcass, shallots and ginger, and stir in the barley.
    Andy Baraghani, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The carcass was burned to make sure the virus didn’t spread to any scavengers, Beckmen said.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
  • The sharks were six, eight and nine feet in length and were feeding on the carcass of a sea lion.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • The boys winched the carcass up to the Jeep and likely had backstraps for supper.
    Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
  • One of those crosses is wound with the carcass of a rattlesnake.
    Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 11 Dec. 2020
  • She was then filmed tearing chunks of the shark’s flesh off of its carcass with her teeth.
    Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the background, fish carcasses are seen laid out on the floor along a brick wall.
    Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • So, a garden, the beach, deer poop or a seal carcass all get the same treatment.
    Lisa D. Foster, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • The video concludes with the bear standing over the massive carcass of its kill.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The shredded carcass was stripped to a heap of battered steel and even the engine block was ripped from the car.
    Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • One carcass lay near the road, ringed by traps for the foxes that, like the frost, steal animals from the herd.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In the mud, teeming with maggots, is the rotting carcass of a wild boar.
    Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Once, in an eddy, my son found a bleached white carcass bobbing in the reeds.
    Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Experts at the museum suspect the carcass was a fin whale based on the size.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Not only is the duck fat pure culinary gold, the carcass is nothing to sniff at.
    Hana Asbrink, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Jones and a relative made quick work of the carcass, breaking it down in hours.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2021
  • But for the rest of the carcass, here in Louisiana, people like to bone it out and grind it.
    Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • But these stinky carcasses send a massive pulse of food to scavengers in the soil.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Join 3 others in the comments View Comments With each slice and turn of the whale carcass, more clues emerge.
    Lex Harvey, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Marsh reported the carcasses to the Whiting Parks Department, who then found about 40 birds in the lake’s ice shelf.
    Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The third piece of evidence is the hanging carcass which can be found where the Lower Semine poacher was sitting.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025

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