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entrails - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- victim: Classical writers also refer to divination by studying the entrails of sacrificial victims or the flight or speech of oracular birds.
Converse of object
- examine: Witch doctors casting the runes or examining chicken entrails would probably be as useful.
- read: Or maybe later, depending on how you read the entrails at the Web site.
- use: It uses the entrails, in particular the intestines of human sacrifices.
- remove: With a very sharp knife, slit the length of the belly of the fish and remove the entrails.
Adjective modifier
- bloody: He imagined opening it and letting out a nexus of multi-coloured wires, or bloody entrails.
- human: They deemed it indeed a duty to cover their altars with the blood of captives and to consult their deities through human entrails.
- very: My very entrails burn for want of drink, My bowels cry, Humber, give us some meat.
Modifies a noun
- spill: Gooey, slimy entrails spill out onto the ground.
Noun used with modifier
- chicken: Witch doctors casting the runes or examining chicken entrails would probably be as useful.
- goat: A favorite method of divination was reading sheep or goat entrails.
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