How to Use cannibal in a Sentence

cannibal

noun
  • Their refuge is set on fire by the cannibals, forcing the trio jump into nearby trees.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 May 2023
  • Of course, not all tales of pop culture’s most enduring cannibal have been made equal.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Showbiz cannibals and a greedy celebrity press were chewing her up.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But one of them is that the conference has been a raging cannibal in the last three seasons.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Our senior thesis was about a cannibal.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Her captors are bodybuilding cannibals who proceed to chop off her right arm and leg.
    — Rick Bentley, kansascity.com, 22 June 2017
  • There have been a lot of cannibals popping up in pop culture recently.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • He’s decked out like a Tintin caricature of a cannibal, in bones and a grass skirt.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • In this dystopian horror thriller, a young woman is captured by cannibals.
    — Sharon Hoffmann, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Our favorite teenage cannibals will have to go on a diet after Friday.
    — Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • An unnamed man and boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, fending off cannibals and despair.
    — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2020
  • In the other version, a human cannibal killed and ate two of three Tlingit brothers.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
  • Was Ed Gein a cannibal or necrophiliac?
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That's when the cannibal hiding inside the wall attacks, and Connie races through the house to survive.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Think back to Season 1 when Ellie is captured by the cannibals.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • On the other side of an expanse of sandy flats, not too far from where the cannibals congregate, is a place called Comfort.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • The other possibility is that some of the girls were willing to go cannibal and some weren't, splitting the group in two.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The survivor, the youngest brother, vowed revenge and eventually beat the cannibal to death.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
  • Most thought Tyson’s career was over, that he would be considered a pariah for the rest of his life for acting like a cannibal in the ring.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • If follows a family of cannibals whose daughter want attempts to stop eating human flesh.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Within the shadows of the forest, come the whispers of an ancient tribe of cannibals, known as Batow.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The crew faced wild storms and lost several ships and men, and the looming threat of encountering cannibals had them constantly on edge.
    — Eugenia Lazaris, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The film is a post-apocalyptic thriller about a family of Black farmers who who must defend their land from cannibals.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024
  • But after about a week in close quarters with the babies, the deep-down systems start to awaken, and the former cannibal begins to act like a softy around the pups.
    — Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But there is no evidence that Kalinago peoples were cannibals.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This is a very random old news story, but there were these two very scary Pakistani identical twin brothers who were cannibals in the news maybe a decade or so ago.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Set in a world ravaged by diseases and acid rains, the film follows a mute gravedigger who joins forces with fellow survivors to avenge his colleague’s death at the hands of cannibals.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2024
  • Users also posted gruesome images of human arms and other body parts and falsely claimed that the Rohingya were cannibals.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2019
  • The cannibals of the South Sea Islands roast human beings alive to satisfy hunger.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In the movie, a group of teenagers falls prey to a clan of cannibals, including the notorious chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023

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