How to Use carnivore in a Sentence

carnivore

noun
  • We are relieved this cool carnivore is back in the wild safe & sound!
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
  • The carnivores were small, had long snouts and still had three fingers on each hand.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
  • For a deep carnivore like me, those extra 3 points are worth it.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Marie Claire, 25 July 2017
  • It was also found that dogs may have the most neurons of any carnivore point blank.
    — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • Polar bears in the wild are carnivores that mostly feed on fat-rich seals.
    — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • But most creatures were small, and no digging carnivores of this size had come to light.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 30 July 2019
  • 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
  • The mini lamb chops are a classic treat for carnivores.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • When fully grown, this compact carnivore tips the scales at a mere 5 pounds.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Martens are carnivores known to eat birds and their eggs, small mammals like chipmunks, berries, and nuts.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Birds also have a beak and no teeth, and that doesn’t stop an eagle from being a carnivore.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 26 May 2026
  • 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 sea otter, a carnivore, strikes mollusk shells against rocks to get at the food inside.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Portuguese man-of-wars are carnivores and feed on small fish and animals.
    — Caroline Wilburn, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Those factors alone helped kill off plants, then the herbivores, and then the carnivores that fed on them.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Great for the paleo carnivores.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • There’s plenty of unhealthy ways to be a vegan, just as there are for a carnivore.
    — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • As carnivores, cats are the very definition of predator for dogs who are wired to think like this.
    — Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
  • That includes making popsicles out of frozen blood and meat for some of the zoo's carnivores.
    — Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • Some of these giant carnivores from the Ice Age were able to hunt mammoths.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 June 2019
  • From the shapes in the ground, the researchers conclude that the sauropod came by before the carnivore.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
  • That’s what’s on the menu for the latest fad, the carnivore diet, also called zero carb.
    — Abby Langer, SELF, 7 Aug. 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
  • Predatory carnivores saw the stuck animals as the perfect way to get a meal.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Which isn’t to say the flavor of the steak is one that every carnivore appreciates.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Scientists have seen deer pacing back and forth along the wall, and carnivores trying and failing to get through.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The nymphs are food for animals living underground, and the adults feed every carnivore in the area.
    — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2021

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