How to Use carnivore in a Sentence

carnivore

noun

• Instead, my carnivore’s palate led me to the Bread Steak.
  — David Tamarkin, Bon Appétit, 23 June 2021
• We are relieved this cool carnivore is back in the wild safe & sound!
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• In a matter of minutes, the 6-foot, 350-pound carnivore would be be sitting next to a pile of slushy snow.
  — Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• The sea otter, a carnivore, strikes mollusk shells against rocks to get at the food inside.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Those factors alone helped kill off plants, then the herbivores, and then the carnivores that fed on them.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• When fully grown, this compact carnivore tips the scales at a mere 5 pounds.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• When large herbivores got trapped in the goo, carnivores would follow them in and get stuck as well.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
• The arrival of spring has brought the sighting of a curious carnivore: the fisher cat.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
• By the time of T. rex, though, the largest non-T. rex carnivore was about the size of an adult human, with a huge gap between these smaller raptors and the tyrant king.
  — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2020
• The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be any prey large enough for such a carnivore in the same rocks other than Shonisaurus itself.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• There’s no carnivore that lived at that time that could break those bones at mid-shaft, and they’re broken at mid-shaft; that’s how people break bones.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
• The Acrocanthosaurus was a carnivore that looked similar to a Tyrannosaurus rex and ran on two legs to catch its prey.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• There’s plenty of unhealthy ways to be a vegan, just as there are for a carnivore.
  — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• Before 2020, our carnivore household of two would rarely cook a meal with more than one vegetable side dish.
  — Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2020
• The two-legged, hollow-boned carnivore would have been around 3 to 6 feet in length and weighed up to 90 pounds, according to the Museum of Science.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
• Scientists have seen deer pacing back and forth along the wall, and carnivores trying and failing to get through.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
• The nymphs are food for animals living underground, and the adults feed every carnivore in the area.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2021
• The carnivore likely fed on fish, crustaceans and tiny dinosaurs.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The skull belonged to a dinosaur called Buriolestes schultzi, a fox-sized carnivore that lived in what’s now Brazil about 230 million years ago.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
• Just about all carnivore dinosaurs, from the two-pound Microraptor to nine-ton T. rex, belong to the same group: the mostly two-legged, three-toed theropods.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2022
• Here is the great carnivore Megalosaurus glaring out of amber eyes and stalking through a rust-red landscape.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Proponents of the carnivore diet think the world is burning.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2022
• The deep, clear tracks are thought to belong to Acrocanthosaurus, a carnivore not dissimilar to the T-Rex that grew to 15 feet and could weigh up to seven tons.
  — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• The otter, a member of the weasel family, is a slim carnivore with webbed feet and typically 2 to 2½ feet long.
  — Chloe Bennett, Dallas News, 8 July 2021
• If the tyrannosaur misses and the prey takes flight, or if the tyrannosaur is spotted before this critical moment, the hunt ends and the great carnivore moves off.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
• The city is a hub for fishing and hunting, and for tourists who’ve come to see one of the world’s largest land carnivores, the omnivorous brown bears that roam the archipelago.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
• Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952 and are the only large carnivore in the country to have suffered that fate.
  — Melissa Gray, CNN, 25 May 2023
• That means baby tyrants were in competition for food and space with other carnivore species, and those species seem to have made way for the tyrannosaurs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
• But the size of ancient predators puts current carnivores to shame, with true giants swimming the oceans, flying the skies, and walking the plains and forests of the prehistoric world.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• The relative size of the bulb is perhaps greater than in any other carnivore, the paper says, but this may just be due to the smallness of the bear’s cerebrum (its central brain).
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024