carcass

noun car·cass \ ˈkär-kəs \

|Updated on: 20 Aug 2018

Examples: carcass in a Sentence

Definition of carcass

1 : a dead body : corpse; especially : the dressed body of a meat animal

Butchers trimmed the meat from the carcass.

2 : the living, material, or physical body

It was nearly noon when he finally hauled his carcass out of bed.

3 : the decaying or worthless remains of a structure

the carcass of an abandoned automobile

4 : the underlying structure or frame of something (as of a piece of furniture)

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Examples of carcass in a Sentence

the rusting carcass of an old truck
the carcass of a squirrel that had been run over

Recent Examples of carcass from the Web

But that pact was broken in January 2017, when conservation officer found the deer's carcass in a field.

— tim evans, Indianapolis Star, "Hamilton County man charged in illegal shooting of hamlet's popular 3-legged deer," 11 May 2018
This of course comes with the risk of poisoning other inhabitants of the islands, so oftentimes scientists will remove species like raptors, which might feed on poisoned rat carcasses.

— matt simon, WIRED, "Rats! Coral Reefs Aren't Getting the Bird Poop They Need," 11 July 2018
Get our daily newsletter THE Hanford nuclear complex in Washington state contained radioactive alligator carcasses.

— The Economist, "Secrets and lies of the nuclear age," 7 June 2018
These people set up camera traps for the Sasquatch, examine goat carcasses looking for signs of the chupacabra, or hunting for a yeti on the slopes of the Himalayas.

— avery thompson, Popular Mechanics, "A New Hunt for the DNA of the Loch Ness Monster," 24 May 2018
The styles vary from a nod to Lafayette with a depiction of the courier de Mardi Gras, a painting based on a National Geographic photo of the Mamou tradition, to an alligator carcass sculpture as well as colorful giclees and subtle pencil drawings.

— kadee krieger, NOLA.com, "Rundown Marigny home renovated into weekend getaway and apartments," 17 May 2018
While the Department may have accounted for the additional costs for euthanization and carcass disposal — estimated to be roughly $1,000 annually — its assessment did not appear to factor in a loss of business.

— sarah bowman, Indianapolis Star, "Bobcats, raccoons and coyotes might be saved, now it's up to the Natural Resources Commission," 10 May 2018
For some, however, the gory killing grounds of the rivers are too much to take (the aftermath in November and December isn’t great either, when the stench of rotting, bloated carcasses move downstream to catch in the riverbanks).

— sophy roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, "The Ultimate Safari: Seeing the Great Migration in Kenya and Tanzania," 25 Apr. 2018
In Iceland these days, whale carcasses are sometimes towed back out to sea and sunk, says Gísli Víkingsson, head of cetacean research at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute.

— National Geographic, "This Man Has Helped Give 460 Dead Whales a Second Life—As Art," 9 Apr. 2018

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