vulture 的定义
- any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, often having a naked head and less powerful feet than those of the related hawks and eagles.
- any of several superficially similar New World birds of the family Cathartidae, as the turkey vulture.
- a person or thing that preys, especially greedily or unscrupulously: That vulture would sell out his best friend.
vulture 近义词
等同于 scavenger
更多vulture例句
- There were still bodies in the cornfields and in mud houses being chewed over by vultures.
- Nearly as soon as national relevance is sniffed, major conferences begin to circle a lesser-known program and its staff like vultures, poaching coaches and sometimes entire teams.
- In the mid-1970s, ZZ Top staged the Worldwide Texas Tour, performing on a Texas-shaped stage home to wagon wheels, corral fences, cactuses and live animals including rattlesnakes, vultures, a longhorn and buffalo.
- “It was like vultures swarming the gas pump, just driving around in circles checking all the pumps,” said Alfonso Forte, a clerk at a Circle K north of Charlotte.
- We did one, and it’s another instance where we’re just like vultures trying to make a quick buck and profit off a culture we don’t have anything to do with.
- Vulture wrote a helpful-ish explainer about how to make sure you see it.
- On Buzzfeed, Vulture, Twitter, and in our hearts, these people are celebrated.
- Vulture, too, noticed her “effortless, self-deprecating charm.”
- Specifically, it happened on October 15, when the series aired its fifth episode, “The Vulture.”
- Vulture Shia LaBeouf responds to Jim Carrey's Golden Globes attack.
- Ask the disappointed vulture and the mouth of the muttering earth to tell you, gentlemen passengers!
- This, with contemptuous indignation, we fling back into their face, as a scorpion to a vulture.
- As the Vulture was of too large a draught to proceed higher, the troops were placed on board the steamers Pluto and Corsair.
- Yellow Vulture has seen the taunts calling the red warriors "women with the hearts of deer."
- Very few birds probably ascend to a height of two thousand feet in the air, the vulture tribe excepted.