How to Use vulture in a Sentence

vulture

noun
  • As soon as they learned of his arrest, the media vultures started circling.
  • Tell the vultures that this is a no-feed zone?
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Dozens of vultures died of bird flu in Amelia.
    — Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Dec. 2025
  • One of vultures in a barren tree.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The men even quarrel like vultures over how to split the spoils.
    — Gina Montaner, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • There’s a vulture in the home, flapping its wings.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Owls, vultures, hawks and falcons are the stars in this show.
    — charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
  • If there are no bodies in the street there are no vultures in the air.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • The sky would fill with vultures trying to eat the turtles.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • After all, vultures and crows are often seen as signs of death.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2024
  • Luke called the vultures back and reshot the scene with the jetsam of pestilence.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • However, the vultures aren’t yet out of the woods.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Quickly, the plots were buzzing with flies, and vultures circled above.
    — Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • So don’t be surprised to see Anne the vulture around town in the next few weeks.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The scene has turned into a vulture’s paradise.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • The Sabres have to be careful here as the vultures will be circling.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • Flying above those trees… Was that a bald eagle or a vulture?
    — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The researchers wanted to find out how the guts of vulture bees differed.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
  • On a high trail, two vultures hung on air currents, searching the ground, and a hawk soared above us.
    — Patti Davis, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2012
  • Clever crows have been seen hooking grubs with twigs; vultures are known to crack open ostrich eggs with rocks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
  • That includes what many consider the foulest fowl on the earth, the black vulture.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • McDaniel’s aware the vultures are circling, but doubt has not crept in.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • Jena’s husband wanted to leave her body to the vultures.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Drake doesn’t like being referred to as a culture vulture.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The vultures' dwellings also held ropes, horse tack and thousands of bone fragments and eggshells.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As a rule, vultures like Spain are a part of the loud minority.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Others shot the bald vultures, whose wings can span 9½ feet and who can live more than 50 years.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Claims of Drake being a culture vulture have become less salient with time.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
  • Lawmakers need to close the loopholes now before the vultures pick it clean.
    — Adam Kovacevich, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Any move Lopez makes that's even remotely cringey will be fodder for the vultures.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024

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