CARCASS in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for CARCASS, such as:

1. The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal.
2. any of their products, the carcasses or products of which.
3. They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
4. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
5. Hunters must check the animals in at stations while carcass is still fresh.

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 Meanings and Examples of CARCASS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
carcass
 n.  dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  There were men to scrape each side and men to scrape the back; there were men to clean the carcass inside, to trim it and wash it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Before the carcass was admitted here, however, it had to pass a government inspector, who sat in the doorway and felt of the glands in the neck for tuberculosis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  The carcass hung for a few minutes to bleed; there was no time lost, however, for there were several hanging in each line, and one was always ready.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Now and then, when the bosses were not looking, you would see them plunging their feet and ankles into the steaming hot carcass of the steer, or darting across the room to the hot-water jets.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  The gang having already got the carcass on to the truck, the party set out at a trot, followed by screams and curses, and a shower of bricks and stones from unseen enemies.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
6  Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
8  You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
9  Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
10  The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
11  I had my shoulders against the wreck of my steamer, hauled up on the slope like a carcass of some big river animal.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
12  The sons of Autolycus busied themselves with the carcass of the boar, and bound Ulysses' wound; then, after saying a spell to stop the bleeding, they went home as fast as they could.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
13  It must have been for his hide, for, CERTES, the carcass is not worth eighteen livres.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
14  In still other places men were engaged in cutting up the carcasses that had been through the chilling rooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  any of their products, the carcasses or products of which.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
2  Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
3  Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
4  Hunters must check the animals in at stations while carcass is still fresh.
5  The history of the field is littered with the carcasses of ventures that flourished spectacularly before either crashing to oblivion (SixDegrees, MySpace) or finding a niche in the ecosystem (LinkedIn).