Sentences with phrase «like vultures»

They had to be like vultures on a fresh kill.

Real estate can be a tough business, with a lot of competition from agents who are after the same clients you're looking for — they're circling over you like vultures this very instant!

Giant YouTube has recently come under fire, yet again, and some of its competitors seem to be circling around it like vultures around a carcass.

I know of a group that most certainly, and at all times, would be conflicted by their self - interest — the non-lawyer profit - seekers who are lurking like vultures just waiting for us to be so stupid as to sell our profession to them.

It's fascinating that, like vultures searching the ground for a carcass, some viewers look at one study (which is as yet unverified by other climate scientists) and claim it puts the final nail in the coffin of AGW.

I think that the «scandal» about the CRU emails is a hypocrisis where the press like vultures were eating strange out - of context interpretations of poorly worded emails....

One image, «Your sadness is drunk», depicts several chickens pecking in a dusty abandoned site — like vultures feasting on a dry corpse, pecking on nothingness.

You're like vultures picking at road kill then spitting it out when it don't taste like prime rib.

Flashing forward to the present, Pearlman notes the deep discounts at the closing Borders, where «people pick at the remains like vultures atop a rotting calf.»

His heirs, to no one's surprise — especially Troy's — are circling like vultures.

The peasants flocked around the girl like vultures.

They don't come swarm you like vultures when you enter their dealership.

Because of the scarcity of parts, everything is built by salvaging wrecked cars like vultures ripping apart carcasses of the dead machines.

Like vultures, crows are carrion birds and have a general air of otherwordly spookiness.

Humans sat by from a distance like vultures, waiting for the feast to end.

«White - tailed eagles look impressive and dangerous but they behave like vultures.»

The NYC and Albany «journalists» saw a political «virgin» and went after him like vultures.

We shall dance like vultures.

Yet, that deja vu would appear completely lost, on the opportunistic brood that clambered to his Minna hill top mansion, like vultures swooping on a thick ooze of carrion — political carrion of lazy and illicit advantage.

I like to say that they all ate like birds: 2 like sparrows and 2 like vultures.

The sharp players moved in like vultures, picking off the gap.

Gomes has been linked to Barcelona, despite his father suggesting that Manchester United was his son's dream club and the club he wants to rise through the ranks of, meaning that Barcelona and probably other teams will be circling like vultures around the player in years to come.

And if you know how Barcelona had circled our players like vultures in recent time, you will understand the fright.

U have a fair point if those deals are done... N we end our league trophy drought... But still wenger should have done those deals earlier so that our new comers would gel into the team by the start of the season... always last moment transfers and waiting like vultures for özil like transfer sagas There should be a proper transfer plan

When I baked this huge and glorious sesame seed - studded challah the other day, I only had a moment to snap this picture with my iPhone before my family descended like vultures.

Took it to a church potluck and the few small bits that were left got attacked by the paws of 4 small children as they crowded around and picked at it like vultures to a carcass.

They really are like vultures who swoop down when someone of faith is killed.

«The G - 8 governments claim to support calls for responsible behavior by lenders like vulture funds,» Lidy Nacpil of Jubilee South said in a statement.

She pronounced it with venomous, piercing rage, like a vulture pouncing on its prey, and then she threw her cup against the wall.

Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream, a mint sprig and a fresh blackberry or devour as is like a vulture when no one is looking.

We will have to circle like a vulture and risk a last min deal if we are to go for him and it can all backfire leaving us with a panic buy.

She may have angered her upstate bretheren, but she is positioned just where she wants to be, like a vulture sitting on a line waiting for road kill.

Cathy's like a vulture sitting on a telephone line near a busy highway, she knows there's a roadkill in her near future.

Don't glare like a vulture, just make eye contact — «check in» often to see if his face registers understanding, engagement, or a strong desire to ask a question.

Keith provides Out Of Range with its sense of momentum, moving things forward where Sharp will circle his themes like a vulture.

06 White - Washing and De-Gaying and The Like Vulture already cast a welcome light on the habit of films to make LGBT stories about straight people.

Infinity War delivered on its promise to make Thanos into a sympathetic villain in line with other recent MCU additions like Vulture and Killmonger.

Amazing Spider - Man # 675 (Marvel) Infinite Speech: Never liked the Vulture so the parts I li...

I've been in a situation before where I was circling a stock like a vulture circles roadkill, and just before buying — bam!

Within FX, this phenomenon has drawn speculators interest to trading such events like a vulture to an about - to - be-corpse lying in a field below.

On Saturday, Marvel revealed during SDCC that LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 would also feature characters like the Vulture, based on his design from the recent movie Spider - Man: Homecoming.

Many versions are now available, from the original ASCII - based game to graphical overhauls like Vulture's Eye.

And in parking lots, you might end up following a pedestrian around like a vulture so you can grab their spot as soon as they reach their car.

Nor will it likely surprise anyone that the US is repulsively circling Greenland like a vulture, waiting for it to declare independence so our oil companies can swoop in an monopolize the region.

Throughout all of it, stay extremely polite — what you don't want to do is look like a vulture.

He with a 30 pus year old dental practice, swooped in like a vulture and took SOLE CUSTODY.

But like @Michael Q. has stated, there's no reason to sound like a vulture and tell them why you are mailing them.

Not exact matches

Vulture, or Adrian Toomes, played by a very well - cast Michael Keaton — who probably got this role for appearing as another man with wings in «Birdman» — is one of the rare villains in the MCU that has a personal vendetta against the superheroes who doesn't feel like a desperate tie - in.

«If there is no imminent bid for Norwegian, IAG is just the first vulture to have landed that would like a say in how Norwegian's long - distance fleet... is dismantled and sold,» Norne analyst Karl Johan Molnes said.

The dispute had deteriorated over the years into a contentious affair that bordered on the uncivilized on many occasions, like when Fernandez called the 85 - year old judge who presided over the case «senile» or referred to Singer as a «Vulture Lord» and «bloodsucker.»