Use "preying" in a sentence
1. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates.
2. Bogus social workers have been preying on old people living alone.
3. Albacore are top carnivores, preying on schooling stocks such as sardine, anchovy, and squid
4. An English ship had roamed the Indian Ocean, preying with impunity upon Portuguese commerce.
5. Newt visual poor, mainly preying on the sense of smell, fish, Jiejue, Cyclops , such as for food.
6. I lost my temper with her the other day and it's been preying on my mind ever since.
7. Buccaneer definition is - any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies; broadly : pirate
8. These self-styled complementary therapists make a fortune out of preying on the gullibility of often very sick people.
9. This was because the field now included more subtle nasty strategies capable of preying ruthlessly upon such an out-and-out softy.
10. Feeding strikes of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) alevins preying upon Daphnia are described using videorecording of synchronous lateral and antero-ventral views.
11. A reported 5,000 abandoned children roam the streets in Bogotá, Colombia, living by their wits, preying on and becoming the prey of others.
12. Preying on remote farmsteads, Bugbears reveal their presence with thumps in the night or creaks of boards to build lurking dread and arouse
13. She occasionally takes on a succubus-like manner, preying on weak-willed men to drain or freeze them through sex or a kiss.
14. The Antechinus is a small mouse-like Australian marsupial. It is a ferocious hunter, preying on insects and small animals such as frog and lizards
15. With few natural predators, they have been rapidly expanding in Caribbean and Atlantic waters, voraciously preying on local fish, shrimp and crab populations across the region.
16. The Bluefish ranges through warm and tropical regions of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, living in schools and preying with voracity on other, smaller animals, especially fishes.
17. Fish like Mandarin fish and seahorses are used to preying on invertebrates like Copepods and Amphipods as their main source of nutrition in the wild ocean reefs.
18. The Alienist Release year: 2018 In 1896 New York City, psychologist Laszlo Kreizler is enlisted by Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to catch a killer preying on homeless boys
19. If a swindler is trying to sell you fake medicine, then he is "preying on your Credulity." This noun is associated with being naïve, gullible or innocent.
20. Bone Crier's Moon, by Kathryn Purdie Release Date: March 3rd, 2020 Rating: 4/5 Summary: Bone Criers are the only ones alive who can keep the dead from preying on the living
21. Animals Lyrics: Baby, I'm preying on you tonight / Hunt you down, eat you alive / Just like Animals, Animals, like Animals-mals / Maybe you think that you can hide / I can smell your scent from
22. Buccaneer, an English, French, or Dutch sea adventurer who haunted chiefly the Caribbean and the Pacific seaboard of South America, preying on Spanish settlements and shipping during the second half of the 17th century
23. Less than half of the 25 Crocodilian species have been involved in fatal attacks on humans, and only Crocodilians about {of a similar size to the prey of some of the Crocodilian species incapable of preying on adult humans.
24. Neuropterans: Lacewings, Antlions, and Owlflies (364) Opiliones and Harvestmen (75) Orthoptera (7) Other (6) Pantopods and Sea Spiders (1) Photo 7 (4) Plants (34) ferns and mosses (2) Seed Pods (21) Potato Bugs, Wetas and Parktown Prawns (183) Preying Mantis (354) Pseudoscorpions (91) Recipes (2) Reptiles (28) Rodents (12) Root Maggot Flies (1
25. Corbett held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon regions.
26. Ryholt notes that Kamose never claims in his second stela to attack anything in Avaris itself, only "anything belonging to Avaris (nkt hwt-w'rt, direct genitive) i.e., the spoil which his army has carried off" as lines 7-8 and 15 of Kamose's stela—the only references to Avaris here—demonstrate: Line 7-8: I placed the brave guard-flotilla to patrol as far as the desert-edge with the remainder (of the fleet) behind it, as if a kite were preying upon the territory of Avaris.