How to Use cannibalize in a Sentence

cannibalize

verb

• Many parts of the engine were cannibalized from older cars.
• He cannibalized one washing machine to fix another.
• By giving merchants the option to bypass cards for payments, there’s a risk that Visa could potentially cannibalize its own card business.
  — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
• That could mean that the Max 10 runs a risk of cannibalizing sales of the Max 9.
  — Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
• This is a species that will cannibalize its young and full-grown adults if food is scarce enough.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2019
• This weekend, the Big 10 and Big 12 will cannibalize their own.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2021
• Many in the Donner Party refused to cannibalize at the cost of their lives.
  — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• Retiring some of the B-1Bs will allow the Air Force to cannibalize them for spare parts, many of which are no longer available.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2021
• At times, he's been able to encourage farmers to buy two of the same tractor and cannibalize one for parts.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Not only are the ships old, some have been cannibalized to keep existing ships still in the fleet running.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2019
• This paints a clear picture of a VA forced to cannibalize itself in order to pay for care in the private sector.
  — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
• Among invertebrates, there are rules of thumb: Females cannibalize more often than males; the old and young are the first to go.
  — Libby Copeland, Slate Magazine, 9 Jan. 2017
• Given how weak the box office has been so far this year, surely one movie would cannibalize the other.
  — Time, 25 July 2023
• Many parts from these demos were already deemed perfect as-is and would be cannibalized into the mix of finished songs.
  — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
• In a press briefing during the lead-up to the 7a's release, Google was asked about cannibalizing Pixel 7 sales with the release of the Pixel 7a.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
• But the shift seemed to merely cannibalize Black Friday sales.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2021
• A new video has captured a gruesome and little seen side to polar bears: When times are tough, males cannibalize cubs.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 23 Feb. 2016
• Fleets are also likely to shrink, as more planes are cannibalized.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2023
• Baseball isn’t likely to cannibalize the success of the Timbers and Thorns, either.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 24 May 2021
• That may prove a difficult line to walk - and could end up simply cannibalizing sales from West Elm.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
• The city seemed to drag its feet on the issue, partly out of concerns that DoBi would cannibalize Divvy ridership.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 1 May 2018
• Sooner or later Disney will run out of its own movies to cannibalize.
  — Cicero Estrella, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
• Its days of cannibalizing movie and TV writing roles aren’t far away either.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• There’s a risk of Boeing cannibalizing its sales of new freighters, but the company says first-quarter sales of those new jets were more than double the total for the whole of last year.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2018
• Jobs will be cannibalized over time and replaced by others.
  — Meghann Farnsworth, Recode, 7 Apr. 2018
• The females, typically larger than the males, have been known to cannibalize the smaller males.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• Scalise’s loss is the latest evidence that the party would rather cannibalize itself than lead the country.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
• In its race to catch up with Microsoft, Google must try to avoid cannibalizing itself.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
• The negative: There's only so much room and the borderline teams tend to cannibalize each other.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
• Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024