flesh-eating
Example Sentences
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“MHF is simply too dangerous to use. It is a flesh-eating, low-crawling, toxic vapor cloud. Our communities will not be safe until this chemical is gone.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026
A ban on imported cattle was implemented to stem the migration of a flesh-eating parasite.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Mr O'Hara, who contracted a life-threatening flesh-eating disease which caused horrific injuries, previously told Newcastle Crown Court he had become a "shell" of himself.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2024
“A real in-the-flesh, flesh-eating poet who also happened to be a real black woman,” said the poet Terrance Hayes, introducing a volume of her selected works in 2019.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
I should feel lucky it’s not something really bad, like cancer or some rare flesh-eating bacteria.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
