How to Use roadkill in a Sentence

roadkill

noun
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  • 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
  • And roadkill, the carnage on the side of the street are people like Cohen, which is a sad thing.
    — Fox News, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • The 2023 report also maps out roadkill hot spots across the state.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Some of it comes from roadkill, others from deals with zoos.
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • 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 my path were two large black crows, snacking on roadkill.
    — Hayley Krischer, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • To get to the other side, of course — without the risk of becoming roadkill.
    — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Rats have likely been the city’s dominant roadkill since the time of the Model T.
    — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 4 June 2021
  • The Pacific newt is populous in this part of the state, but high roadkill rates abound in the North and South Bay.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Miss Texas has had her fill of acorns, yucca roots, roadkill, fish and lots of veggies.
    — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 14 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, roadkill, which used to be common in this wildest part of Florida, is no longer seen.
    — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • The moose died and was salvaged by an available roadkill salvage team in the area, McDaniel said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • To the grieving mother, Amanda, dressed all in black, is an inky crow come to pick at the roadkill of her son's wasted life.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
  • One call came simply to report roadkill on their street.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 July 2022
  • Alabama was roadkill on Highway 280 by the time it was done.
    — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The skit is chock-full of roadkill references and wannabe love-affair jabs at Sessions.
    — Lily Jackson | Ljackson@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The streaming video space has grown so rapidly that there is clearly going to be some roadkill ahead.
    — Derek Baine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Without them, our roads would be covered with stinky roadkill.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The great irony of roadkill is this: Its most conspicuous victims tend to be those least in need of saving.
    — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The state will notify anybody whose roadkill deer has the disease.
    — Matt Vasilogambros, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Near the entrance to the facility, five or six black vultures brunched on roadkill.
    — Mark Dent, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • CarrieAnn Young was passing the cafeteria at her job in early March when the smell hit her: roadkill.
    — Andrea Ball, USA TODAY, 21 May 2022
  • Thirty states in the U.S. allow people to collect roadkill as food.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In the last two years alone, ten states have passed laws making roadkill collection legal.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Also, hunters and non-hunters alike are encouraged to report deer roadkill and deer that are behaving oddly to the local Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries office.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 28 June 2023

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