How to Use carrion in a Sentence

carrion

noun

• Vultures live chiefly on carrion.
• Coyotes also clean up carrion, remove sick animals from the gene pool, and protect crops and gardens.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2024
• Didn’t play in trash, didn’t play in carrion like Speck.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 29 Sep. 2021
• The Roman skies Blutch draws are full of flies and carrion birds.
  — Douglas Wolk, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• So snapping turtles do eat a lot of carrion, a lot of dead things — dead fish, dead frog, what have you.
  — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2019
• But across the street from the wall are a clutch of trailers desiccating like carrion.
  — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2021
• The protein and fat from carrion would have fueled the early humans’ brain and body growth.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• Scavengers like carrion bugs and birds prey on what soft tissue is left.
  — Fox News, 4 Oct. 2019
• That which had been Grey was a still warm mess of carrion somewhere in the unreal map below.
  — Richard Snow, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• Scientists also learned the condors’ carrion of choice has changed over the years.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 4 May 2023
• Three other men crawl toward the art on hands and knees, leaving slimy trails behind, drawn like slugs to carrion.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• On the island of Sumatra, the flower is pollinated by carrion flies and beetles who are drawn to the stinky smell.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2023
• The birds can live for 60 years and fly vast distances in search of carrion, so their range could extend into several states.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2022
• Two black carrion crows swooped down on the unprotected head of a woman passing by.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2021
• Carrion crows wanted to mate with carrion crows, and hooded crows wanted to mate with hooded crows.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• Clements said the plant’s scent is designed by nature to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies from miles away to help with the pollinating process.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
• Late-night comedians pecked at the news like vultures on carrion.
  — Michael J. Mooney, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2016
• The giant raboon concentrates on the meat of the limbs and neck, leaving the rest to smaller, less powerful carrion feeders.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
• The slime attracts flies and other insects that normally feed on or lay their eggs in carrion or feces.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Some of species' pitchers have mottled coloring that looks a bit like tasty carrion, which lures prey inside the pitcher.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
• Then there are the cleaners, like carrion beetles, which rid our land of rotting corpses by dragging them off, laying eggs in them, and feeding their offspring the flesh.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2016
• While the condors scavenge enough carrion to survive on their own, Ventana uses feeding sites to check on the birds and tag them with transmitters.
  — Tommy Wright, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
• Fish and Game's red fox fact sheet states that their diet includes small mammals, birds and bird eggs, vegetation and carrion.
  — Bob Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2018
• The termites feed on the scraps of carrion that the ghole invariably leaves scattered around the mound, thus benefiting from the relationship.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
• Other species like eagles and ravens also include carrion as part of their diets.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019
• Instead, these carrion-feeding bees used those baskets to collect the chicken.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Nov. 2021
• Caracaras are frequently ground-dwellers, clacking around on the rocks and scavenging smaller birds, eggs, insects and carrion.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• The television talking heads pick over each and every juicy tidbit like vultures over carrion.
  — Kay Jones, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Hard economic times draw companies like this the way carrion draws vultures.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Mar. 2018
• The snakes are commonly found in grasslands, deserts, and woodlands — speedy and non-venomous; coachwhips prey on birds, reptiles, carrion, and insects.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024