How to Use flesh-eating in a Sentence

flesh-eating

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• The flesh-eating worm is now present on both sides of the border.
  — Abraham Tellez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
• In the movie, the virus turns people into flesh-eating zombies.
  — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
• This flesh-eating parasite is knocking on our back door.
  — FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• The catchy musical about that flesh-eating plant is never too far in the rearview either.
  — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
• There are now concerns about flesh-eating bacteria.
  — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
• One group dipped their arrows in a toxic substance that caused a fatal flesh-eating disease.
  — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
• The flesh-eating parasite has infected cattle, goats, and now a dog.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 June 2026
• Other factors that popped up this year, like tariffs and a flesh-eating screwworm, have pushed beef prices northward.
  — Addy Bink, The Hill, 10 Aug. 2025
• Where are flesh-eating bacteria cases in the US?
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
• Florida has already had two deaths from this flesh-eating bacteria.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
• What are some symptoms and signs of flesh-eating bacterial illness?
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
• Miller, whose office is also working to control the flesh-eating parasite, was not part of the event.
  — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 15 Feb. 2026
• The battle against the flesh-eating fly has only just begun deep in Mexico.
  — Mark Landler Luis Antonio Rojas Laura Chung Francisco Rodríguez, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• In Texas, ranchers are bracing for an onslaught of screwworms, the flesh-eating maggots of blowflies.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The bacteria, found in salt and brackish water, can cause flesh-eating infections and thrives as coastal waters warm.
  — Eva Flowe june 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
• The flesh-eating maggots go for most warm-blooded animals, including horses and cows.
  — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
• Vibrio are a flesh-eating bacteria that thrive in saltwater and brackish water (a mix of salt and fresh water).
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
• Each story is interwoven throughout the movie, telling tales of teen terror, frosty family feuds, and flesh-eating elves.
  — Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
• Do not read this if my editors have slapped a closeup of cochliomyia hominivorax, aka nightmare flesh-eating parasite, on top of this column.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2026
• Both the brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria flourish in warm water conditions.
  — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 17 July 2026
• The flesh-eating virus that already is devouring college athletics is now taking a very serious bite out of common sense.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
• Ravenous, flesh-eating flies have busted through containment barriers and have now reemerged in the US.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
• Then, the man transforms into a violent, flesh-eating zombie, and all hell — with a side of George Romero-style class warfare — breaks loose.
  — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
• Officials in late May identified a goat infected with the flesh-eating infection, which is spread via screwworm flies.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 2 June 2026
• Their eggs, laid in open wounds or on mucous membranes, would then not hatch into the flesh-eating maggots that can infest livestock, wild mammals, household pets and even humans.
  — John Hanna, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
• Texas is gearing up for war as a savage, flesh-eating fly appears poised for a US invasion and is expanding its range of victims.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
• But health experts are issuing a warning amid the rise in cases of the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
• Even before this flesh-eating escalation, some of the Hamptons’ bays and ponds have faced declining water quality.
  — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2026
• State health officials are warning beachgoers about a flesh-eating bacteria that can be fatal in a matter of days if swimmers become infected with it.
  — Evan Moore august 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Aug. 2025
• That small scratch on Lyons’ leg became the entryway for Vibrio vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria.
  — Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025