flesh-eating

Example Sentences

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A ban on imported cattle was implemented to stem the migration of a flesh-eating parasite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Ali: “The Last of Us” features flesh-eating zombie-like things and death-worshipping cults, but I love that the true terror at the heart of Season 2 is the prospect of parenting a teen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

“A real in-the-flesh, flesh-eating poet who also happened to be a real black woman,” said the poet Terrance Hayes, introducing a volume of her selected works in 2019.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Keyan Harvey developed necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug off the back of having chicken pox when he was six.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

“No doubt it would be a grand adventure,” she interjected, for she had no wish to dream about flesh-eating piranhas that night; the murderous pheasants had been bad enough.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood