carrion - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • eat: Eagles will usually hunt and kill live animals, but will often eat carrion such as dead hares and sheep.
  • leave: They grow very rapidly and will be full size within a about a week, and then they will normally leave the carrion.
  • include: It has a habit of egg stealing - tho any animal food - including carrion - is taken.
  • scavenge: It may well be that T.rex was an opportunist flesh eater, combining scavenging carrion with active predation.
  • tackle: In the wild, tortoises are opportunistic feeders and they will on occasion tackle carrion and dung.
  • become: They die if they fail to eat the next turn and become carrion.

Modifies a noun

  • crow: Soon a carrion crow which has been doing its rounds over the upland fields spots the spill.
  • eater: The Old English ' The Battle of Maldon ' refers to the Earn or Sea Eagle as a carrion eater in 10th century Essex.
  • bird: Probably a bit of a road kill that some carrion bird had carried into someone's garden.
  • beetle: Heavy infestations are found especially on dung beetles, carrion beetles and on queen bumblebees.
  • feeder: The arthropods that are most important in forensic entomology are the carrion feeders, those that eat dead bodies.

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