carcass
Example Sentences
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But the precise nature of the spear and the carcass are never directly investigated, and a surprising number of pages go by in which they are barely mentioned.
For thousands of years, they say, these animals hunted for their meals and consumed their prey whole, absorbing the carcasses’ unadulterated nutrients.
"We have tried to escape in search of better places and failed," he told AFP, standing in a field where the carcasses of his goats were piled up.
From Barron's
This mammoth died nearby, but his carcass slumped into an ancient stream bed and was covered by sediment and eventually topped by the pits’ oozing asphalt, encasing and preserving his bones.
He said police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a skilled butcher and her work involved "deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
