prey造句

The tiger devoured its prey.

Conqueror bosses prey on employees' weaknesses.

She was easy prey for dishonest salesmen.

Cats prey on birds and mice.

stronger animals prey upon weaker ones.

A spider weaves a web to catch prey.

This is why snakes always stare at prey.

The prey was crafty and on its guard.

Sea snakes prey on small Marine animals, and the powerful toxins in the venom quickly immobilize the prey before it can swim off.

It spots a monkey in a treetop 2.5 kilometres away and zeroes in on its prey.

An angler fish appears to 'walk' across the ocean floor as it waits for its prey.

It is in Asia that America risks falling prey to a final misperception.

They believed that the serpent was capable of fascinating its prey.

Once again proving there are two user classes on eBay: predator and prey.

The species is the most widely distributed of all beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe.

But beware: these eye-catching anemones have venom in their tentacles, which they use to stun and capture their prey.

On the one hand, cats are predators, but on the other, they're small enough to be prey.

For many animals, this would be too dangerous, because watering holes are ideal places for predators to ambush their prey.

It may actually be to make the spider appear larger and less appealing to predators, or help entice curious prey.

Take that opening scene, for example, in which Landa toys with his prey like, to use his own analogy, a hawk with a rat.

The ichneumon wasp paralyses its prey without killing it and lays its larva inside this convenient source of fresh meat, to eat it slowly alive.

In addition to echolocation, they can sensethe electric fields of their prey – the first time this has been seen in truemammals.

Almost anything that moves and will go into that mouth, even up to half their own body size, is potential prey.

There was a mantis behind the cicada . Raising high its foreleg, it tried to prey the cicada under the cover of leaves.

The merchants immediately began their shouting to frighten the eagles; and when they had obliged them to quit their prey, one of them came to the nest where I was.

The researchers, Manuel Leal and Brian Powell, exposed tropical lizards in Puerto Rico known as Anolis evermanni to a blue disc. Beneath the disc was some tasty prey — a freshly killed worm larva.

“The idea of a man-made machine chopping a bird in half creates a visceral reaction, ” he said, “while the idea of a predator with its prey in its mouth — well we’ve seen that on the Nature Channel.

They ate roots that they had dug out from the ground, and when they could, they caught game and ate it raw with the blood still warm, like beasts of prey.

And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

Because the seven-year contract with Alfa Music will officially be up this month, Jay Chou, who is about to regain "freedom", has become the targetted "prey" of various record comapnies, and he himself also has plans to go independent and set up his own company.

He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. So he stepped ashore and entered the woods.