How to Use cannibalism in a Sentence

cannibalism

noun
  • While stranded in the wild, the girl eventually must resort to cannibalism to survive.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the cannibalism in this movie is not a metaphor.
    Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
  • The practice of cannibalism among the people of New Guinea came to an end in 1960.
    Gerren Keith Gaynor, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • There were even hints of cannibalism in the form of cut marks on human bones.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2019
  • So this could be seen as a form of cannibalism by space aliens.
    Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • And at what point do the teens turn to cannibalism, as was shown in the series premiere?
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • In art, rarely is cannibalism a sign of pure evil on the part of the perpetrator.
    Laura Zornosa, Time, 7 July 2023
  • Later, bones were found that showed signs of cannibalism, and the ships were located at the bottom of the ocean in just the past 10 years.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 26 Dec. 2018
  • The biggest change between the book and the film is how cannibalism is portrayed.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Bart Nickerson: On the one hand one, there's the idea of cannibalism.
    Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Intense bonds give way to cannibalism, but gore isn’t the point.
    Yael Kohen, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Even the element of cannibalism is in the book, but not in the movie adaptations.
    Caroline Brew, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • When Season 2 is over, where will this cannibalism scene rank among the most gruesome parts of the season?
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Only five returned alive and rumors of cannibalism dogged them for the rest of their lives.
    Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • The 72 days that followed saw the survivors resort to cannibalism before two men walked out of the mountains and found help.
    USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Then there is the crime beyond all crimes: cannibalism.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The character has evolved quite a bit from those days, but for me, there's no coming back from cannibalism.
    Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The character’s evolved quite a bit from those days, but for me, there’s no coming back from cannibalism.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2021
  • This, plus some light cannibalism, the breaking of a jaw, and more make for a vivid movie-watching adventure.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
  • There are no signs of cannibalism or other alterations made to the bodies of the people buried in Kendrick’s Cave.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Two of Britain’s tabloid newspapers played a role in boosting the cannibalism claims.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The males often put a stop to this cannibalism by chasing off the offender.
    Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The movie focuses on the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team forced to resort to cannibalism to survive after their plane crashed in the Andes on the way to a match in Chile.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And the food writing is just exquisite and the food writing informs the cannibalism, to put it lightly.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2021
  • At least some of the survivors had resorted to cannibalism, eating the remains of those who died over the winter.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a lot of galaxies, there’s a lot more merging, a lot more cannibalism.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 21 June 2017
  • The pilot revealed that there would probably be cannibalism in the future, which was a very bold stroke.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The loss of both ships and the deaths of all the men is a story still plagued by unanswered questions and the very real horror of the cannibalism some engaged in before all perished.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Tissier had solved the mystery and corrected the cannibalism.
    Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Fitzjames’ jaw—and many other crewmembers’ bones—are etched with cut marks consistent with cannibalism.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024

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