How to Use carnivore in a Sentence

carnivore

noun
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  • Over the next seven days, viewers will be served a monstrous helping of Great Whites, hammerheads, and many more cartilaginous carnivores.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 July 2024
  • After careful analysis, the team ruled out that the marks were made by rodents, carnivores that might have preyed on the animals, or other factors such as trampling, Delgado said.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 July 2024
  • Instead, my carnivore’s palate led me to the Bread Steak.
    — David Tamarkin, Bon Appétit, 23 June 2021
  • We are relieved this cool carnivore is back in the wild safe & sound!
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
  • On this point, at least, Mr. Buettner can agree with the carnivores.
    — Steven Kurutz Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Any weight loss that carnivores have seen as a result of going all-meat, all the time?
    — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Some of these giant carnivores from the Ice Age were able to hunt mammoths.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 June 2019
  • In a matter of minutes, the 6-foot, 350-pound carnivore would be be sitting next to a pile of slushy snow.
    — Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • It was also found that dogs may have the most neurons of any carnivore point blank.
    — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • The king of the dinosaurs may have not been the only Cretaceous carnivore to prey on its own kin.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • The sea otter, a carnivore, strikes mollusk shells against rocks to get at the food inside.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But most creatures were small, and no digging carnivores of this size had come to light.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 30 July 2019
  • Non-carnivores had to settle for french fries or fried dough.
    — Billboard, 6 July 2018
  • Those factors alone helped kill off plants, then the herbivores, and then the carnivores that fed on them.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • When fully grown, this compact carnivore tips the scales at a mere 5 pounds.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • There was plenty for hard-core carnivores, too: a whole ham steak with eggs at brunch; pork chops; lamb ragu.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
  • That’s what’s on the menu for the latest fad, the carnivore diet, also called zero carb.
    — Abby Langer, SELF, 7 Aug. 2018
  • This is the first time in Australia that a carnivore extinct on the mainland has been re-introduced to the wild.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2018
  • When large herbivores got trapped in the goo, carnivores would follow them in and get stuck as well.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
  • The arrival of spring has brought the sighting of a curious carnivore: the fisher cat.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
  • By the time of T. rex, though, the largest non-T. rex carnivore was about the size of an adult human, with a huge gap between these smaller raptors and the tyrant king.
    — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Diet These canids are carnivores, and like to hunt and eat white-tailed deer, racoons, and small mammals like rabbits and mice.
    — National Geographic, 27 July 2019
  • With a bit more research, time, funding and luck, the cultured meat menu 2.0 will include the steak and pork chops many carnivores know and love.
    — Natalie R. Rubio, The Conversation, 5 July 2019
  • The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be any prey large enough for such a carnivore in the same rocks other than Shonisaurus itself.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That includes making popsicles out of frozen blood and meat for some of the zoo's carnivores.
    — Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • As carnivores, cats are the very definition of predator for dogs who are wired to think like this.
    — Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
  • All of this had to happen while the meat was still fresh and before nightfall, when carnivores would scavenge the carcass.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
  • There’s no carnivore that lived at that time that could break those bones at mid-shaft, and they’re broken at mid-shaft; that’s how people break bones.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • As Gorongosa’s carnivore expert, Ms. Bouley knew that Beira, the alpha female of the pack, had been pregnant when the dogs were set free.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The plant and algae eaters had a subset of that subset, and carnivores had the least diverse microbiomes of all.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Aug. 2019

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