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Sentence count:242+19Posted:2017-02-08Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: fair gamefeedpredatequarryraventargetSimilar words: pressspreadprewarpreferpreachSupremeprettyprepareMeaning: [preɪ]  n. 1. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence 2. animal hunted or caught for food. v. 1. profit from in an exploitatory manner 2. prey on or hunt for. 
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211 Birds of prey are frequent in winter, with sparrowhawk and hen harrier likely.
212 Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay.
213 Just as the wolf will chase its prey, Fido chases his ball.http://sentencedict.com/prey.html
214 The hunt starts with the lionesses hunting as a group for their prey.
215 Men prowled the motel like packs of wolves searching out easy prey.
216 Many birds of prey regurgitate pellets which contain the indigestible remains of their prey, including much of the bone.
217 The bird's problem then is to distinguish sickening from edible prey.
218 They become a prey to nameless and often unspoken fears.
219 No bird of prey hovered overhead, not even the dragonflies disturbed the oily surface of the pond.
220 These refugees fell prey to marauding gangs, even to troopers, or to one another.
221 A more extreme development of this pattern is seen in the kestrel, peregrine and buzzard prey assemblages.
222 Smaller birds that prey on insect pests also raid fruit crops[sentencedict.com], which must be netted.
223 Flight silent, and very agile, gliding and wheeling, with sudden darts after prey.
224 The prey then became the bait for a subsequent round of testing.
225 Sooner or later the predator will end up feeding preferentially on the most abundant of the available types of prey.
226 They can also catch kinds of prey that they could not catch by themselves, such as buffalo.
227 Most of its prey are ducks and seabirds, fish and carrion.
228 The behaviour of worm-lions, which also flick sand at their prey, is essentially the same as that of the ant-lion.
229 Like a wolf pack scenting easy prey, they dismounted and spread out.
230 The smaller the prey becomes, the more labour is needed to obtain adequate nutrition.
231 The eagle overhead was hungrily seeking a rock on which to drop its prey.
232 This way, Tucson can avoid falling prey to wildcat subdivisions on its fringes.
233 At rest, Arthur was an aged peregrine constantly scanning local air currents for unwary prey.
234 It works on the principle that the pursuer will not be able to change direction as efficiently as the prey.
235 But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem, which had begun to prey on his mind.
236 The tiger anchor ed fast to its prey.
237 This burglar thought old people are easy prey.
238 the relationship between predator and prey.
239 On the flight from Paris to Toulon, Mechiche fell prey to panic.
240 In the simulation, predator and prey follow randomly assigned life - cycle durations.
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