How to Use roadkill in a Sentence

roadkill

noun

• There is a lot of roadkill along the highway.
• Since no one shot a deer, the park staff finds a roadkill deer for the class to dress and butcher.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
• And roadkill, the carnage on the side of the street are people like Cohen, which is a sad thing.
  — Fox News, 3 July 2018
• In the first four weeks of the stay-at-home order, the daily rate of roadkill dropped by about 20 percent.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
• The 2023 report also maps out roadkill hot spots across the state.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Some of it comes from roadkill, others from deals with zoos.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• As the family nears their coastal rental, Alma ticks off the roadkill along the way and stops at ten.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• In my path were two large black crows, snacking on roadkill.
  — Hayley Krischer, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• To get to the other side, of course — without the risk of becoming roadkill.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• Rats have likely been the city’s dominant roadkill since the time of the Model T.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 4 June 2021
• The Pacific newt is populous in this part of the state, but high roadkill rates abound in the North and South Bay.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
• Miss Texas has had her fill of acorns, yucca roots, roadkill, fish and lots of veggies.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• Non-farmers may see the birds more often on the side of the road, pecking at rotting roadkill.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2019
• The birds are adaptable, and can feed on fish, roadkill, other birds and more — even in Central Park.
  — Ryan Mandelbaum, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• The lions could use it any time of the day or night without fear of becoming roadkill.
  — Craig Pittman, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• Turning a blind eye and trying to make the whistle blower roadkill will come back to bite you.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• In fact, roadkill, which used to be common in this wildest part of Florida, is no longer seen.
  — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• The moose died and was salvaged by an available roadkill salvage team in the area, McDaniel said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• To the grieving mother, Amanda, dressed all in black, is an inky crow come to pick at the roadkill of her son's wasted life.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
• One call came simply to report roadkill on their street.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 July 2022
• Alabama was roadkill on Highway 280 by the time it was done.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• The skit is chock-full of roadkill references and wannabe love-affair jabs at Sessions.
  — Lily Jackson | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2019
• The streaming video space has grown so rapidly that there is clearly going to be some roadkill ahead.
  — Derek Baine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Without them, our roads would be covered with stinky roadkill.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The great irony of roadkill is this: Its most conspicuous victims tend to be those least in need of saving.
  — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023
• The state will notify anybody whose roadkill deer has the disease.
  — Matt Vasilogambros, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2020
• Near the entrance to the facility, five or six black vultures brunched on roadkill.
  — Mark Dent, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• CarrieAnn Young was passing the cafeteria at her job in early March when the smell hit her: roadkill.
  — Andrea Ball, USA TODAY, 21 May 2022
• Shilling said there are three ways for communities to reduce roadkill: Drive less, slow down and build fencing.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
• Greater productivity will benefit the world in a general way, but to be roadkill, to be the textile worker in New Bedford [is painful] ...
  — Felix Salmon, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024