Example Sentences

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La Trompette used to be much more carnivorously hardcore when it opened a decade ago.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2012

It was mad all the time, and it played the game carnivorously.

From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George

He laughs carnivorously when I tell him that one of these days he will have to write an ode in honour of the Emperor, to please me.'

From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Browning, Robert

“But the poppies are here to-day,” she said, glaring carnivorously upon their glow and splendour.

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack

In the list of my deprivations above written, I forgot to mention a fact which I know will gain me the sympathy of all carnivorously disposed people.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith