carrion

Example Sentences

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They’ll eat anything — carrion, invertebrates, plant matter — which helps keep ponds clean.

From Seattle Times

If old age is carrion, it’s also, as a “Citizen Kane” character put it, the one disease you don’t look forward to curing, which provides the impetus for the movie’s finale.

From New York Times

Caracaras are frequently ground-dwellers, clacking around on the rocks and scavenging smaller birds, eggs, insects and carrion.

From Washington Post

The theories range from scavengers such as carrion bugs eating the carcasses to people attacking the animals to cause financial harm to ranchers.

From Washington Times

Andean condors are scavengers and primarily eat carrion - decayed flesh of dead animals - and the fear is that they may have eaten poisoned carcasses.

From BBC