Definition: 1. An animal, a bird, etc. that is hunted, killed and eaten by another. 2. A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence. 3. Animal hunted or caught for food. 4. Profit from in an exploitatory manner.
Use 'prey' in a sentence:
1. When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked.
2. Today's vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago.
3. Black widow spiders also use their webs to ensnare their prey.
4. Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night.
5. She knew she must not fall prey to his charm.
6. They hunt at night, and cannot use light to help them find prey and avoid obstacles.
7. Obviously the night-flying insects that they prey on must find their way about somehow.
8. Owls usually swallow their prey whole.
9. You'd better not sleep, because she's waiting for you like a hunter waiting for his prey.
10. How do predators affect populations of the prey animals?
11. Smith believes that the hunters were well aware of the more disciplined ways in which their prey behaved.
12. The hunters stalked their prey.
13. Any straggler that fell behind or got lost in the darkness was easy prey for the enemy.
14. Strong animals prey upon weaker ones.
15. Tourists have become easy prey.
16. The fox buried his prey beneath the ground.
17. The survey claims loan companies prey on weak families already in debt.
18. However, if safe areas like those prey animals have in the wild are provided, the prey population drops to low level but not extinction.
19. You were both a prey to compulsions.
20. He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience.
21. When this occurs, the prey population can rebound.
22. These animals shred the prey that fall into the pitcher, and the smaller organisms feed on the debris.
23. The herbivore prey is of a different mind.
24. Children in evacuation centres are falling prey to disease.
25. For colubrids, the venom must serve some other purpose, maybe linked to digesting prey.
26. If these great cats become extinct, the smaller animals they prey upon will overpopulate the forests.
27. The larvae prey upon small aphids.
28. This burglar thought old people are easy prey.
29. On the flight from Paris to Toulon, Mechiche fell prey to panic.
30. Elderly people are easy prey for dishonest salesmen.
31. The octopus is prey to many species, including humans, so how does it escape its predators?
32. These animals were the prey of hyenas.
33. He was prey to a growing despair.
34. The elements of intelligence and consciousness come together marvelously to produce different styles in predator and prey.
35. Octopuses catch their prey with their tentacles and use their venom to kill them, much like snakes.
36. Pam had never learned that there were men who preyed on young runaways.
37. The population of the spruce budworm, the warbler's favorite prey in North America, has been dropping.
38. Canine teeth are for piercing and killing prey, and tearing flesh.
39. The absence of children at Christmas preyed on Liz's mind.
40. The effect was to disrupt the food chain, starving many animals and those that preyed on them.
41. The boys dug pits and baited them so that they could spear their prey.
42. Low prey population levels then provide inadequate food for the predators, causing the predator population to decrease.
43. The deer fell a prey to the lion.
44. They share a more recent ancestor with Drosera sundews, which can also curl their leaves over their prey.
45. They use their sense of hearing to capture their prey.
46. Pitcher plants use yet another strategy, growing long tube-shaped leaves to imprison their prey.
47. The bats are able to avoid other predators, and locate prey—typically insects that fly around at night.
48. The lion will often stalk its prey for hours.
49. She looked like a lion baulked of its prey.
50. The eagle does not prey on its own nest.; It isn't advisable to harm one's next-door neighbours.; The eagle never hunts near his own nest.
51. The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.
52. The baby fish are easy prey for birds.
53. The lions closed in on their prey.
54. Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges.
