man-eating

Example Sentences

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Sections were removed which compared the imagined culinary merits of different nationalities from the perspective of man-eating giants, including describing Greeks as "greasy-tasting" and people from Japan as very small compared to Norwegians or Americans, the newspaper said.

From Reuters

Yes, there are gorgeous robots, a devastating space laser, a pool of man-eating sharks under the dining room and lots of diabolical chuckling.

From Washington Post

Instead it forces Glenda to speak for it, and in contradiction to the message nearly every scene before establishes, by slapping down her neighbor's feeble excuse for watching a newsmagazine give airtime to the man-eating beast with whom she shared a wall.

From Salon

Information about the actual species that live around us, and how they behave, might go a long way toward debunking the mythical man-eating shark that we’ve conjured up in our minds.

From Slate

There are currently seven so-called man-eating tigers behind bars.

From BBC