Scavengers Sentence Examples

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  • I hope the scavengers won't disturb her grave.

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  • In the nests of Bombi are found various beetle larvae that live as inquilines or parasites, and also maggots of drone-flies (V olucella), which act as scavengers; the Volucella-fly is usually a" mimic ' vades.

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  • Some of the scavengers, like the burying beetles, inter the bodies of small vertebrates to supply food for themselves and their larvae, or, like the "sacred" beetle of Egypt, collect for the same purpose stores of dung.

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  • They are in turn skilled scientists, architects, builders, artisans, labourers and even scavengers; but collectively they are the rulers on whom the colony depends for the wonderful condition of law and order which has made the bee-community a model of good government for all mankind.

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  • To a geographical distribution of the widest extent, Diptera add a range of habits of the most diversified nature; they are both animal and vegetable feeders, an enormous number of species acting, especially in the larval state, as scavengers in consuming putrescent or decomposing matter of both kinds.

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  • Phagocytes act as scavengers in ridding the body of noxious particles, and more especially of harmful bacteria.

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  • There is, of course, no sewerage system, the surfaces of the streets serving that purpose, and what garbage and refuse is not consumed by the dog scavengers washes down into the Tigris at the same place from which the water for drinking is drawn.

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  • Others are scavengers feeding on decaying organic matter; the pond skaters, for example, live mostly on the juices of dead floating insects.

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  • Scavengers were employed in early times, and sewage was received into wells and pumped into the kennels of the streets.

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  • Dogs are scavengers by nature, and they are essentially omnivores at heart.

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  • This includes potent free radical scavengers, namely the antioxidant vitamins A, C, E and beta-carotene.

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  • They attract rats and other scavengers, and they can spread diseases.

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  • For Sassoon the " brown rats, the nimble scavengers " are simply another dab of paint to define the scene.

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  • The open quarries were used for the disposal of refuse, which probably attracted the scavengers.

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  • Excellent for use in freshwater or marine aquariums to feed scavengers thereby reducing the chances they will attack other aquatic pets.

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  • This poison is then consumed by the scavengers - and they too die.

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  • There are carnivores, herbivores and scavengers among them.

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  • Of such " Orders " Brisson had twenty-six and he gave pigeons and poultry precedence of the birds which are plunderers and scavengers.

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  • It is no exaggeration to say that wolf packs are feeding the carnivores and scavengers in Yellowstone.

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  • Sesame oil is a rich source of polyunsaturated fatty acids and it contains potent free radical scavengers.

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  • Beachcombers and other scavengers may enjoy this related site called Things that float.

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  • Grape seed extract - one of the most powerful antioxidants and free radical scavengers known.

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