carrionin a sentence
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The vultures must see carrion.
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The plant attracts flies by smelling like carrion.
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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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They made away with carrion. (source)carrion = the dead and rotting body of an animal
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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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As far as I'm concerned they're scavengers — hyenas, the lot of them; jackals on the scent of carrion, ravens hunting for roadkill; corpse flies.† (source)
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Don't think that they're cowardly or that they only eat carrion.† (source)
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They tore into the bag like jackals into carrion.† (source)
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They are parasites and scavengers, eaters of carrion.† (source)
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Weasels will tear out her entrails and carrion crows feast upon her eyes.† (source)
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But all animals feed on carrion.† (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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He heard its purring growl; he smelled its sweet carrion breath.† (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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It was clear that we had to sit there like wooden carrion until, if we were lucky, high tide would float us off.† (source)
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Not that crows take off their feathers in the sun either, and these men were just a flock of crows: robbers, carrion-eaters who liked to plunge their sharp beaks into dead flesh.† (source)
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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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