How to Use carcass in a Sentence

carcass

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  • At the base of the hills is an elk carcass, and somewhere in the trees above it, a small pack of wolves.
    — Angela Owens, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Place the carcasses and skin in a large saucepan or small pot.
    — Sheri Castle, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Get rid of the carcass, shallots and ginger, and stir in the barley.
    — Andy Baraghani, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The carcass was burned to make sure the virus didn’t spread to any scavengers, Beckmen said.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
  • The sharks were six, eight and nine feet in length and were feeding on the carcass of a sea lion.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • She was then filmed tearing chunks of the shark’s flesh off of its carcass with her teeth.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The video concludes with the bear standing over the massive carcass of its kill.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One carcass lay near the road, ringed by traps for the foxes that, like the frost, steal animals from the herd.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Experts at the museum suspect the carcass was a fin whale based on the size.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Not only is the duck fat pure culinary gold, the carcass is nothing to sniff at.
    — Hana Asbrink, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Eagles had nearly picked the carcass clean by mid-June.
    — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Like many folks, Hodgson uses the carcass to make stock.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In one, a grinning man holds up the carcass of a leopard as blood drips down his forearms.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Video showed thousands of fish carcasses on the surface of the water at Bryan Beach.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 13 June 2023
  • The critters stick to tires and the bottoms of shoes, and their carcasses are everywhere, even in gyms.
    — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • Simmer the carcass with vegetable scraps in a pot on the stovetop, or use the Instant Pot for a faster, more hands-off process.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • When removed from the mold, clean-up and buffing is required to get the carcass ready for the cover layer.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • According to Wheeler, the plan calls for the owl carcasses to be removed from the area where they’re shot.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Season one ended with the promise of killing The Beef and starting a fancier place in its carcass.
    — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The drone filmed one of the orcas pushing a 9-foot-long shark carcass to the surface of the water near two other orcas.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds, if not thousands, of bullet holes dot the plane’s carcass.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
  • Drone footage captured by rangers shows dozens of tiger sharks feeding on the carcass of a humpback whale off the Australian coast.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 June 2023
  • The whale carcass was discovered on Jan. 27 in Lydgate Park.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Police posted a photo of the carcass snapped by a witness showing the dead shark laying on its side on the sand.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 20 July 2022
  • Dirty, brownish water flows down streams, and beetles search for sap in the carcasses of trees.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But research shows that because of their iconic teeth, the big cats didn’t pick the carcasses clean and routinely left lots of meat on the bone.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Fish fertilizer is made from parts of the fish carcass (bones, scales, and skin) that would otherwise go to waste.
    — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2023
  • Today, though, the only sign of them is the ravaged carcass of a capybara, and beside it, perhaps, a few faint paw prints.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Vultures circle a cow carcass on a farm on the road to the Apyterewa territory.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • Near the end of the film, a group of conservationists encounters the massive carcass of a humpback whale far from the shore.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023

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