Sample Sentences forcarrion (auto-selected)
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Already a host of the elves is on the way, and carrion birds are with them hoping for battle and slaughter. (source)carrion = of a type that eats dead bodies
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Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tiger, carrion to the kite, (source)carrion = dead and decaying bodies of animals
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They made away with carrion. (source)carrion = the dead and rotting body of an animal
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They tore into the bag like jackals into carrion.† (source)
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Weasels will tear out her entrails and carrion crows feast upon her eyes.† (source)
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Soul-hungry ghuls who feed on pain like vultures on carrion.† (source)
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"Get your hands off me, you pack of carrion-eaters!" the man roared, and he dashed the guards aside.† (source)
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That's a kind of beetle, it buries carrion.† (source)
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That carrion rogue and his accurst companions burnt it out when he had conquered all my wits with wine.† (source)
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From the direction of the gymnosperm forest there came the mournful ululation of a carrion-breed pack.† (source)
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A good kissing carrion.† (source)
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Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.† (source)
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What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?† (source)
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I sent for Kenneth, and he came; but not till the beast had changed into carrion: he was both dead and cold, and stark; and so you'll allow it was useless making more stir about him!'† (source)
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He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blowfly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it.† (source)
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She was back at her desk, and he'd followed her there, standing over her like some carrion bird.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous,
Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls
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carrions = despicable, worthless people
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