CANNIBALISM in a Sentence

Learn CANNIBALISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

16 example sentences for CANNIBALISM, such as:

1. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
2. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
3. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.
4. More than once she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing.
5. But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANNIBALISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cannibalism
 n.  practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
Classic Sentence:
1  It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
2  Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
3  Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
4  You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
9  I was told that there were still smaller ones, but they had been lost by some little cannibal urchins, the priest's children, who had stolen them to play marbles with.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
10  His hair and clothes were whitened with snow, and his sharp cannibal teeth, revealed by cold and wrath, gleamed through the dark.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
12  In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
13  But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
14  More than once she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  The scene the horror film where the cannibal dismembered the missionary left me with my hair standing on end.
2  Why the dour outlook? Milunovich cited a few reasons. The lower-priced iPad Mini looks to be cannibalizing sales of the larger and more expensive iPad.