prey vs pray
Definitions
noun
- animal hunted or caught for food
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
verb
- prey on or hunt for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
Examples
The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
Definitions
verb
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer
Examples
Their prayers were answered and the child was found safe and well.
The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life.
I have sprayed them a couple of times with soapy water, which kills some of them but doesn't harm beneficial insects like ladybirds.
