How to Use roadkill in a Sentence

roadkill

noun

• There is a lot of roadkill along the highway.
• In other words, a recipe for roadkill.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
• Since no one shot a deer, the park staff finds a roadkill deer for the class to dress and butcher.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
• Without them, our roads would be covered with stinky roadkill.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Many studies like these don’t need to use roadkill to be successful.
  — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
• Pythons were either killed as part of removal efforts or roadkills.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 21 Dec. 2017
• Miss Texas has had her fill of acorns, yucca roots, roadkill, fish and lots of veggies.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• The lions could use it any time of the day or night without fear of becoming roadkill.
  — Craig Pittman, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• Turning a blind eye and trying to make the whistle blower roadkill will come back to bite you.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• Alligators bask along a two-lane route and often end up as roadkill.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• To get to the other side, of course — without the risk of becoming roadkill.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• The streaming video space has grown so rapidly that there is clearly going to be some roadkill ahead.
  — Derek Baine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Non-farmers may see the birds more often on the side of the road, pecking at rotting roadkill.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2019
• In the last two years alone, ten states have passed laws making roadkill collection legal.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
• But eating roadkill is allowed — to an extent.
  — Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Oct. 2025
• They can be spotted along highways eating roadkill.
  — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 3 May 2026
• The state will notify anybody whose roadkill deer has the disease.
  — Matt Vasilogambros, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2020
• And roadkill, the carnage on the side of the street are people like Cohen, which is a sad thing.
  — Fox News, 3 July 2018
• The 2023 report also maps out roadkill hot spots across the state.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• As the family nears their coastal rental, Alma ticks off the roadkill along the way and stops at ten.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• In fact, roadkill, which used to be common in this wildest part of Florida, is no longer seen.
  — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• Fleshy and smooshed, the image is more reminiscent of roadkill than a human eye.
  — Dani Deahl, The Verge, 9 July 2019
• In the first four weeks of the stay-at-home order, the daily rate of roadkill dropped by about 20 percent.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
• Near the entrance to the facility, five or six black vultures brunched on roadkill.
  — Mark Dent, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• The skit is chock-full of roadkill references and wannabe love-affair jabs at Sessions.
  — Lily Jackson | [email protected], al, 17 Nov. 2019
• Undeterred, searchers dragged slabs of ham down game trails and baited camera traps with roadkill or live chickens.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
• What might look like a few grainy pixels to Waymo’s cameras one moment could be roadkill to swerve around the very next.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
• The birds are adaptable, and can feed on fish, roadkill, other birds and more — even in Central Park.
  — Ryan Mandelbaum, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Coyotes are also scavengers and will feast on roadkill and clean up the environment.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
• Rats have likely been the city’s dominant roadkill since the time of the Model T.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 4 June 2021