Examples of cannibal in a Sentence
Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2024
Bone Tomahawk is arguably the best, a slow-burn Western that stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins as a posse of men who hunt a group of indigenous cannibals.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Set in a world ravaged by diseases and acid rains, the film follows a mute gravedigger who joins forces with fellow survivors to avenge his colleague’s death at the hands of cannibals.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2024
There was so much gay subtext between the FBI profiler (Hugh Dancy) and the most famous TV cannibal of all time (Mads Mikkelsen) that the show single-handedly kept the fan-fiction lights on at Tumblr.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
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“Cannibal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannibal. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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cannibal
noun
from New Latin Canibalis "Carib," from Spanish Caníbal (same meaning), from Taino (American Indian language of the Greater Antilles) Caniba (same meaning), of Carib origin
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