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noun

carnivore

a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal

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Six example sentences with carnivore, each labelled with its topic.

  • Wolves returned to the valley, and the first large carnivore in decades quickly thinned the overgrazing elk herds.

    Environment

  • Tooth wear on the fossil jaw convinced the team that this seal-like animal hunted as a carnivore year round.

    Science

  • The survival map spawns one roaming carnivore per island, so players who forget torches rarely last the night.

    Gaming

  • The safari guide explained that a carnivore like the cheetah hunts in the cool of morning, so we left camp before dawn.

    Travel

  • Wildlife photographers wait days at a waterhole for a carnivore to appear, since the herds come every evening but the cats do not.

    Photography

  • The cave painters at Chauvet drew the lion more often than any other carnivore, in rows of watchful profiles.

    Art

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