How to Use carcass in a Sentence

carcass

noun
  • If there is brush, cut a pile and lay the carcass on top.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The carcass seemed about the size of a horse, stretched out there.
    — Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There's all kinds of things that want to eat a small dead carcass.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Pick all the turkey meat from the carcass.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Place the carcasses and skin in a large saucepan or small pot.
    — Sheri Castle, sacbee, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Place the carcasses and skin in a large saucepan or small pot.
    — Sheri Castle, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The whole carcass must be retrieved, not just the antlers or hide.
    — Mead Gruver, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The whole carcass must be retrieved, not just the antlers or hide.
    — Mead Gruver, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • And once that chicken is picked clean, the carcass is ready for stock.
    — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • She was then filmed tearing chunks of the shark’s flesh off of its carcass with her teeth.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • On top of the inner liner is the carcass ply.
    — Jason Fogelson, AJC.com, 29 May 2026
  • One of those crosses is wound with the carcass of a rattlesnake.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Once all the meat has fallen off the carcass, fish out the bones and start adding in your roux.
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Thousands of deer carcasses and pounds of leather were sent to the front.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • When the carcass is cool, take the remaining meat off the bones.
    — Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Do not even think of bringing home any carcasses.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Its jaw was hooked on the fishing line and the salmon carcass floated in its teeth.
    — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, latimes.com, 15 July 2019
  • The entire trap and mouse carcass are then disposed.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The bear sprawled across one of the carcasses, watching the wolves leave.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At times, the living dolphin placed its chin on the carcass and pressed down on it.
    — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
  • Bears killed in such a way belong to the state, which salvages the hide and carcass.
    — Fox News, 4 July 2019
  • In the background, fish carcasses are seen laid out on the floor along a brick wall.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But a lot of risk in eating a rotting carcass that has sat in the sun a day too long.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • So, a garden, the beach, deer poop or a seal carcass all get the same treatment.
    — Lisa D. Foster, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • The crust carcass remains on the serving plate.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s because bite marks on the goat carcass left in the trap roughly match the cougar’s teeth.
    — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
  • 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
  • The carcass has since been sent to a state lab for a necropsy and analysis.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
  • Cackles of hyenas from far and wide will arrive in search of the carcass.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025

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