Sentences with prey
prey
P p - Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges.
- The effect was to disrupt the food chain, starving many animals and those that preyed on them. [VERB on/upon noun]
- Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night.
- Pam had never learned that there were men who preyed on young runaways. [VERB on noun]
- The absence of children at Christmas preyed on Liz's mind. [VERB on noun]
- He was prey to a growing despair.
- A bird of prey
- A beast of prey.
- Foxes prey on rabbits.
- The Vikings preyed on coastal settlements.
- His worries preyed upon his mind.
- Loan sharks that prey upon the poor.