Roadkill is an English word with synonyms like body. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Roadkill in a sentence
Roadkill meaning
- The killing of an animal by a road vehicle.
- The animal or animals so killed.
- A helpless victim.
Synonyms of Roadkill
Using Roadkill
- The main meaning on this page is: The killing of an animal by a road vehicle. | The animal or animals so killed. | A helpless victim.
- Useful related words include: body, dead body.
- In the example corpus, roadkill often appears in combinations such as: roadkill and, of roadkill, roadkill is.
Context around Roadkill
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Roadkill
- In this selection, "roadkill" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lastly, market, change, incidents, continues and animals stand out and add context to how "roadkill" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amc market roadkill and shorted and and lastly roadkill is the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "roadkill" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with roadkill
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Roadkill Gil is worried about safety? (6 words)
Roadkill continues next Sunday on BBC One at 9pm. (9 words)
UC Davis has maintains a website documenting roadkill incidents across California. (11 words)
The law allows the Department of Fish and Wildlife to decide whether to put down an animal that is hit by a vehicle and then to consider it roadkill that can be taken home by the person who hit it. (40 words)
In “Crossings,” Goldfarb profiles several of them and catalogs their many remedies for roadkill, including “flimsy-looking rope courses” strung between forest canopies so that apes in Taiwan and monkeys in Brazil can swing across the freeway. (37 words)
The Garden State is one of 27 states in America, according to NBC News, that has some kind of roadkill consumption law on the books, but is the only one that restricts regulations to deer only. (36 words)
Roadkill Gil is worried about safety? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Devils have often been victims of roadkill when they are retrieving other roadkill.
For example, a bear enters a home where it doesn’t belong, live stock depredation, and lastly, roadkill is the smallest number.
In “Crossings,” Goldfarb profiles several of them and catalogs their many remedies for roadkill, including “flimsy-looking rope courses” strung between forest canopies so that apes in Taiwan and monkeys in Brazil can swing across the freeway.
Professional traders like Left and others who considered GME and AMC market roadkill and shorted them were forced to cover their short positions at big losses.
The Colorado Department of Transportation cleans up the roadkill on a regular basis, generally at night, when there is not as much traffic.
The hoary fox is a species endemic to Cerrado savanna habitat and faces similar threats as the maned wolfm such as land-use change, roadkill, and disease spread by domestic animals.
A citizen science project has recorded nearly 300 fishing cat roadkill incidents in the last 10 years, he says.
It was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” noting people could get a bear tag for roadkill in New York.
You have 24 hours to report roadkill and 72 hours to obtain your salvage permit.
Albert said possession permits are commonly requested by people who find roadkill they seek to use as coyote bait.
Roadkill continues next Sunday on BBC One at 9pm.
Ben will realize Ciara came incredibly close to becoming roadkill, so he’ll immediately blame Jordan.
Compatriot Steve Burke has worked years in preparing his traveling trunk made up of “roadkill” animals and materials he has collected.
Roadkill Gil is worried about safety?
The back end of Washington’s rotation is a mess; the lineup is torn up and underperforming; the bullpen is a furry pile of unidentifiable roadkill, moldering in the sun.
The Garden State is one of 27 states in America, according to NBC News, that has some kind of roadkill consumption law on the books, but is the only one that restricts regulations to deer only.
The law allows the Department of Fish and Wildlife to decide whether to put down an animal that is hit by a vehicle and then to consider it roadkill that can be taken home by the person who hit it.
UC Davis has maintains a website documenting roadkill incidents across California.
With all these shortcomings, however, these nine structures have proved that wild animals do indeed use them, potentially reducing roadkill and creating habitat connectivity.
Among his belongings, Sniper found a copy of Capital Punishment’s Roadkill but had no idea that the B Stiller credited with playing drums was the star of Zoolander and A Night at the Museum.
Common combinations with roadkill
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- roadkill and 6×
- of roadkill 3×
- roadkill is 2×
- for roadkill 2×
- the roadkill 2×
- roadkill incidents 2×