How to Use vulture in a Sentence

vulture

noun

• As soon as they learned of his arrest, the media vultures started circling.
• Luke called the vultures back and reshot the scene with the jetsam of pestilence.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The 35-year-old vulture had been at the Dallas Zoo for 33 years.
  — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2023
• If there are no bodies in the street there are no vultures in the air.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Just call him a new-school vulture: Yarbrough won 16 games that year, 14 out of the bullpen.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2020
• So don’t be surprised to see Anne the vulture around town in the next few weeks.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2023
• Owls, vultures, hawks and falcons are the stars in this show.
  — charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
• One loss can sure bring out the vultures for a program.
  — Kevin Goheen, ajc, 9 Oct. 2017
• An Egyptian vulture was seen in Britain for the first time since 1868.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• In the distance, a kettle of vultures circle in the sky.
  — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• And to be the red-zone vulture that Royce Freeman was supposed to be — but hasn’t been.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2020
• Then the vultures can start picking through the wreckage.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020
• That includes what many consider the foulest fowl on the earth, the black vulture.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• Last year the Sox were more akin to a vulture, a bird of prey that circles its target and feeds off the dead flesh.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• The researchers wanted to find out how the guts of vulture bees differed.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
• On a high trail, two vultures hung on air currents, searching the ground, and a hawk soared above us.
  — Patti Davis, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2012
• Quickly, the plots were buzzing with flies, and vultures circled above.
  — Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
• The vulture's eye is believed to help the soul's transition.
  — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 July 2024
• No one is certain why the dogs were not harmed by an arthritis drug in the dead cattle that was found to be felling the vultures.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2017
• After all, vultures and crows are often seen as signs of death.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2024
• Kasie's discovery that the body parts were covered in vulture bile leads them to the rest of Emma's body.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• Seeing a vulture on the wing at a hundred yards is one thing, but face-to-face at about 30 feet is something else.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• The researchers plan to dig deeper into the microbiomes of the vulture bees.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Nov. 2021
• Clever crows have been seen hooking grubs with twigs; vultures are known to crack open ostrich eggs with rocks.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
• The vulture will sit atop the lion, glass feathers will make up the lion’s mane, and flowers — just a small touch — will be added to each side.
  — Holly Prestidge | Ap, Washington Post, 25 May 2017
• Any move Lopez makes that's even remotely cringey will be fodder for the vultures.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• For Smith, the vulture house — a two-story home built in 1920 three blocks from the river — could have been turned around far faster under such rules.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• For a sequence with the ten plagues, Luke was tasked with filming vultures landing on a statue.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Back in the early ‘80s, there were more than 40 million vultures of various species in South Asia.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2024
• Police also touted the role vultures played in finding the body.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024