How to Use flesh-eating in a Sentence

flesh-eating

adjective
  • In the movie, the virus turns people into flesh-eating zombies.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • This flesh-eating parasite is knocking on our back door.
    — FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There are now concerns about flesh-eating bacteria.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • One group dipped their arrows in a toxic substance that caused a fatal flesh-eating disease.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The flesh-eating parasite has infected cattle, goats, and now a dog.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 June 2026
  • Other factors that popped up this year, like tariffs and a flesh-eating screwworm, have pushed beef prices northward.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Where are flesh-eating bacteria cases in the US?
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What are some symptoms and signs of flesh-eating bacterial illness?
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Miller, whose office is also working to control the flesh-eating parasite, was not part of the event.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In Texas, ranchers are bracing for an onslaught of screwworms, the flesh-eating maggots of blowflies.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The bacteria, found in salt and brackish water, can cause flesh-eating infections and thrives as coastal waters warm.
    — Eva Flowe june 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
  • The flesh-eating maggots go for most warm-blooded animals, including horses and cows.
    — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Vibrio are a flesh-eating bacteria that thrive in saltwater and brackish water (a mix of salt and fresh water).
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Each story is interwoven throughout the movie, telling tales of teen terror, frosty family feuds, and flesh-eating elves.
    — Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Do not read this if my editors have slapped a closeup of cochliomyia hominivorax, aka nightmare flesh-eating parasite, on top of this column.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • The flesh-eating virus that already is devouring college athletics is now taking a very serious bite out of common sense.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • Ravenous, flesh-eating flies have busted through containment barriers and have now reemerged in the US.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • Then, the man transforms into a violent, flesh-eating zombie, and all hell — with a side of George Romero-style class warfare — breaks loose.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Officials in late May identified a goat infected with the flesh-eating infection, which is spread via screwworm flies.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Their eggs, laid in open wounds or on mucous membranes, would then not hatch into the flesh-eating maggots that can infest livestock, wild mammals, household pets and even humans.
    — John Hanna, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Texas is gearing up for war as a savage, flesh-eating fly appears poised for a US invasion and is expanding its range of victims.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But health experts are issuing a warning amid the rise in cases of the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • Even before this flesh-eating escalation, some of the Hamptons’ bays and ponds have faced declining water quality.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2026
  • State health officials are warning beachgoers about a flesh-eating bacteria that can be fatal in a matter of days if swimmers become infected with it.
    — Evan Moore august 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Aug. 2025
  • That small scratch on Lyons’ leg became the entryway for Vibrio vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria.
    — Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
  • From a pair of famed ‘SNL’ alums to a festival devoted to flesh-eating plants, there are a lot of great shows and events to catch this weekend and beyond.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • Blood and tissue samples turned up positive for Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterium found in warm, brackish waters.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Entomologist Amy Murillo shared a rare, up-close look at the flesh-eating fly now terrorizing cattle and dairy farmers.
    — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Health officials in Florida have confirmed five cases of a rare, flesh-eating bacteria so far in 2026.
    — Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
  • A number of factors have kept prices stubbornly high, including widespread drought and the reemergence of a flesh-eating screwworm in Mexican cattle.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025

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