prey

How To Use prey In A Sentence

• 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. CHAPTER XV
• And they keep prey species from overpopulating.
• The raptor swooped down on its prey
• And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. Scientific American
• A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
• It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.
• The prey Chlorella first formed globose clusters of tens to hundreds of cells. Mutation, selection and complexity - The Panda's Thumb
• At the beginning of summer the young steinbocks are born and during their first months they are the eagle's favourite preys.