preys in English

verb
1
hunt and kill for food.
small birds that prey on insect pests

Use "preys" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "preys" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "preys", or refer to the context using the word "preys" in the English Dictionary.

1. 21 He preys on the barren woman,

2. It preys on birds and shrews in Guam.

3. The spider preys on small flies and other insects.

4. It preys on the old, the sick, the wounded, the weak.

5. It preys on squid and smaller fish which occur in surface waters.

6. The Botfly is a parasitic insect that preys on human and animal skin

7. Clickbait preys on some basic psychology and behavior that’s hardwired into every person

8. Patient Brokering is an unethical practice that preys on people who need addiction treatment

9. Not much else is known other than that the Night Slasher preys upon anyone.

10. The Chinese mountain cat is active at night and preys on pikas, rodents and birds.

11. Since taking over as district attorney last year, he has vowed to vigorously prosecute anyone who violently preys on streetwalkers.

12. 3 Pelagic tunicates play an important role in marine food web carbon cycle as they feed on bacterioplankton and pico-and nano-phytoplankton and meanwhile are preys for commercial animals.

13. Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley.It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it

14. If wide-bodied preys such as panfish or shad are present, I use the fat-body-shaped Jigging Shad Rap; if long, slender Baitfishes are the norm I’ll use the narrow-bodied Jigging Rap

15. Thus, unlike Christian proselytism that preys on the poor and the ignorant around the world, Hindu spirituality and Hindu gurus have attracted the well-educated, the urban, the spiritually inclined and the affluent in the west.

16. Archive 2009-03-01 "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens (1866) This perfectly balanced, beautifully judged story both preys on both the anxiety provoked by the new technology of railways and deeply held beliefs that a ghost can be an Alarum for events to follow.