Sentence examples for carrion from high-quality English sources.

• Vultures are ubiquitous consumers of carrion.

• “It was a bit too much for me,” Carrion recalled.

• The carcasses are bigger than ever, though the carrion may find the pickings unappetising.

• As a generalist species, hedgehogs feed on almost anything they come across on their travels; insects, fallen fruit, carrion and even bird’s eggs feature on a hedgehog’s menu.

• The genomes of hooded and carrion crows mapped almost perfectly onto one another.

• Among vertebrates there are species such as the vultures that exist solely on carrion.

• A pair of carrion crows rested on a rooftop antenna across the street from my hotel room.

• Many invertebrates, such as carrion beetles, live almost entirely on decomposing animal matter.

Use carrion in a sentence.

• Even inside the hybrid zone, however, hooded and carrion crows tended to mate with their own kind.

• Vulture, any of 22 species of large carrion-eating birds that live predominantly in the tropics and subtropics.

• Carrion crows wanted to mate with carrion crows, and hooded crows wanted to mate with hooded crows.

• A subspecies of the carrion crow with gray on the back of the neck and breast is called the hooded crow (C. corone cornix).

• Besides live fish, bald eagles also prey on other birds, small mammals, snakes, turtles, and crabs, and they readily eat carrion.

• In fact, German carrion crows shared more of their DNA with German hooded crows than they did with other carrion crows from Spain.

• It turns out that my old friends the dung beetles, along with flesh flies and other carrion-loving insects, comprise the corpse flower’s primary pollinators.

• Pork or carrion should never be eaten and neither should carrion eaters such as vultures or dogs; products such as feces or hides from these animals should also be avoided.

carrion sentence examples

• Several succulent plants of the Asclepiadoideae subfamily, such as Hoodia, Huernia, and carrion flower (Stapelia), produce odours that are offensive to humans but attract pollinating flies.

• Early released birds were electrocuted on power lines; others died after eating carrion laced with lead from bullets (last year California banned hunters from using lead bullets) or drinking radiator fluid.

• He had no opportunity of saying, or so much as thinking, anything else, until he was clear of the Old Bailey; for, the crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that nearly took him off his legs, and a loud buzz swept into the street as if the baffled blue-flies were dispersing in search of other carrion.

• …objects, sense-related objects, and professions: women in general (because they menstruate), pregnant women, prostitutes, and widows (the latter because of their additional association with death); pigs, dogs, and other scavengers because they eat or associate with excrement and garbage; carrion-eating animals because of their association with death; leftover food, because…