How to Use carrion in a Sentence

carrion

noun

• Vultures live chiefly on carrion.
• 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
• 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
• Trap the birds twice yearly for their health checks by using carrion to lure them into an enclosure, then net them before sneaking up on them and grabbing the back of their head.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2020
• That’s why Rodgers has enlisted some unlikely helpers to do his wildlife surveying for him: carrion flies.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 7 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024