How to Use carnivorous in a Sentence

carnivorous

adjective

• This will be any carnivorous plant, like Venus fly trap and pitcher plants.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024
• The plant is the carnivorous Venus flytrap, which catches its own dinner.
  — Traci Watson, USA TODAY, 23 May 2017
• Thankfully, my carnivorous neighbors were more than willing to accept food at their door at odd hours (brisket!
  — Rebecca Gorena, Bon Appétit, 13 Aug. 2024
• Besides their role in global climate change, peatlands are rich ecosystems in their own right, boasting rare species like carnivorous plants.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• The zoo will also have carnivorous plants such as Venus flytrap, pitcher plant and bladderwort.
  — James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 24 May 2017
• Puffins are carnivorous birds that primarily eat small fish, including herring, hake, sand eels, and capelin.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• The carnivorous Jurassic dinosaur would have been able to easily stand in the palm of your hand, a nipper that had fuzzy feathers as well as scales.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
• A carnivorous flower — somehow that sounds like the perfect New Jersey plant.
  — USA TODAY, 12 May 2017
• In the early days of the Jurassic, carnivorous dinosaurs were getting fancy.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 5 May 2017
• While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant.
  — smithsonianmag.com, 2 May 2017
• This is the first time scientists have observed deer eating human flesh, though they have been known to turn carnivorous in the past, eating fish, dead rabbits, and even live birds.
  — National Geographic, 7 May 2017
• My favorite example is the 1958 horror film The Blob, which told of a carnivorous mass of red Jello.
  — Michelle W., Longreads, 19 May 2017
• Here, some of the best carnivorous plants to grow inside, with how-to tips.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
• But the team also found tooth marks on the bones of the carnivorous Allosaurus.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
• These buttes jut upward like the bony ridge of a lupine jaw, sharp and carnivorous and ragged.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
• The twist: the greenery was made up of live, carnivorous venus fly traps and pitcher plants.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2023
• Crafts people have also joined the crusade to rid the oceans of the carnivorous fish.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• These birds are also carnivorous and have wings that are soft and fluffy with combs and ragged fringes.
  — Dana MacKenzie, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020
• Butcher Box is for those carnivorous dad’s who can’t seem to say no to a good steak.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2022
• This part of the coast is the only place on earth where those famous carnivorous plants grow wild.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
• On the surface, Peele's film is the tale of a UFO which turns out to be a flying, carnivorous monster.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 July 2022
• This is a show-stopping piece of fish and will win over even the most hard-nosed carnivorous critics.
  — Josh Niland, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2021
• These were ghost bats, a carnivorous species, colonies of which cluster in caves and disused mine shafts in the north of Australia.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2020
• Most impressive was the crunch on the skin, which ripped apart in a pleasing, carnivorous way.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021
• At Taste of Nigeria, it can be given a carnivorous twist by adding your choice of meat.
  — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 23 Feb. 2021
• And what if the bad guys are carnivorous dinosaurs ravaging a city?
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Feb. 2022
• The drone is named after a species of ghostly white, carnivorous bats.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2022
• Nothing good for your prospects of a good, carnivorous meal.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• The analysis revealed that two of the extinct species were, like the caiman, carnivorous.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Among all the carnivorous mammals that have ever lived, Andrewsarchus may have been the largest.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024