The phrase "as a jackal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe someone who is cunning, deceitful, or opportunistic, often in a negative context.
Example: "He approached the situation as a jackal, ready to take advantage of any weakness he could find."
Alternatives: "like a scavenger" or "in a predatory manner".
The South American fox, Dusicyon, is sometimes referred to as a jackal.
It would surely hurt her movement if she were to join the Dalai Lama in China's official view as a "jackal in monk's clothing" (or a jackal in a htamain, as it were).
A girl married off to a wealthy expat, who turns out to be a psychopath and sleeps under her bed at night howling like a jackal, is depicted actually as a jackal rather than as a man.
Then one day, while visiting Tibet, he had a Saul of Tarsus-type conversion and realized that being an economic hit man, while not as bad as working as a jackal, was immoral.
Eagleton is in an awkward position: he is a Marxist in good standing and has no wish to be denounced by his comrades as a jackal of the clerico-capitalist bourgeoisie.
Nevertheless, it is also fair to say that an international back row is usually enhanced by the presence of someone adept at pilfering ball at the breakdown: what the South Africans call a fetcher, or the rest increasingly refer to as a jackal.
A lioness thrilled us by giving chase to a jackal, as her five cubs popped their heads up.
Ryan Gray's entry took the runner-up place with a fascinating study of a tawny eagle facing off against a jackal as they compete for a kill in the Masai Mara of Kenya.
They have blasted the foreign news media as biased against China, castigated the Dalai Lama as a terrorist "jackal" and called for a "people's war" to fight separatism in Tibet.
Researchers arrived at their conclusion after sequencing the genomes of three wolves from Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and comparing them with the genomes of three dog breeds -- basenji, dingo and boxer -- as well as a golden jackal.
The earlier epizootic in kudu was most likely initiated by a jackal bite, as peaks of rabies incidence in kudu and cattle coincided with peaks in jackals, although the incidence in kudu appeared to far exceed that in jackals [ 8].
