Sentence examples for flocks of vultures from inspiring English sources

By contrast, some other failed companies have attracted flocks of vultures, giving them more options.

When cows died, they were immediately set upon by flocks of vultures that left behind skin for leather merchants and bones for bone collectors.

Such attitudes are not limited to the tribes, whose leaders relish recounting stories of how their grandfathers described to them the flocks of vultures circling overhead when tribal gunmen helped take on the British Army, which invaded in 1916.

Burros watched silently from an overlook and flocks of vultures congregated on either side, oblivious to the border.

(Her secret: look for the circling flock of vultures).

It was the nature, including its resident flock of vultures, that had tempted him.

When he runs away from trouble, he is likely to be pursued by a flock of vultures.

In the other a flock of vultures tear apart a corpse -- whether of the zebra or some other animal, we don't know -- as words appear on the screen: "this is not political," "this has nothing to do with oil".

The Nation, a Bangkok newspaper, compared giving his party economic control to "planting a tree in the middle of a desert from which a flock of vultures could prey on the dead bodies scattered around".The last Chatichai administration ended in a coup, which the generals sought to justify on the ground of excessive corruption.

The Towers of Silence in Mumbai (and places such as Hyderabad) have found an alternative in powerful solar concentrators which desiccate the corpse admittedly not in the half-hour that a hungry flock of vultures accomplished, but which still keep to Zarathushtra's injunction not to defile the elements.

Back in the 1980s and 90s it was common to see London producers descend on an Edinburgh hit show like a flock of vultures, and I know of companies whose shows went on to tour the world, but who themselves saw very little return, either financially or in terms of their development.