Sample sentences for CARNIVOROUS

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Definition

feeding on animals

Carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting insects.

carnivorous = feeding on animals

the lion and other carnivorous animals
I hoped that Polyphemus did not also keep carnivorous mountain goats.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

carnivorous = meat-eating

The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.
H.G. Wells -- The War Of The Worlds
A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal?
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
The look in his eyes as he felt the keen edge and glared at me was positively carnivorous.
London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
He wouldn't say much by phone but I gather he was mixed up with a carnivorous Fraulein and got over the border almost sans calottes.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
'The rat,' said O'Brien, still addressing his invisible audience, 'although a rodent, is carnivorous.
George Orwell -- 1984
The Grand Inquisitor was carnivorous and full of murder.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
Deer, antelope, turkey, with their carnivorous attendants, panthers, wildcats, and wolves, had not yet been molested by white hunters.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
She smacked a carnivorous horse in the snout with the butt of her sword and sent the monster stampeding through the crowd.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
A diet that is almost purely carnivorous.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
And then, like a carnivorous flower, we are physically attractive to our prey.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
I yell as the carnivorous waves come for me.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal?
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Carnivorous shape-shifters who live secretly among humans.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
They were also carnivorous, and capable of frenzy.
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride

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