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  • noun Plural form of carcass.

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Examples

  • Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings.

    Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. 2009

  • Some will fight, some will rule, some will pray; and all the rest will toil and suffer sore while on their bleeding carcasses is reared again, and yet again, without end, the amazing beauty and surpassing wonder of the civilized state.

    Page 5 2010

  • Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings.

    Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. 2009

  • Among the pranks that earned the young Mr. Elder renown: putting clothes on cattle carcasses from a meat-processing factory, placing them at railroad crossings and screaming to horrified passersby that his friend “Moshe” had been killed.

    Will Elder z”l « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

  • As appealing as it is in potentially promising a bona fide sea serpent carcass, it is unfortunately no better than the many tales of lost sea serpent carcasses from the 18th and 19th centuries.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • What was a place filled with trash and animal carcasses is now place where kids are able to play soccer.

    Baghdad sanitation services improve 2004

  • Of course in the U.S. you have the humane society picking up stray hungry animals and removing carcasses from the roads.

    encouraging words 2003

  • Some will fight, some will rule, some will pray; and all the rest will toil and suffer sore while on their bleeding carcasses is reared again, and yet again, without end, the amazing beauty and surpassing wonder of the civilized state.

    The Scarlet Plague 1912

  • The use of tools also gave our ancestors access to rich sources of meat, namely the carcasses of large, dead animals.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2010

  • How'd your sisters take to being called carcasses?

    Mark's Daily Apple 2009

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