animal of prey
Example Sentences
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Instead of wise and confident, the man looked cold, commanding, intimidating, like some regal animal of prey.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
The wild-cat has short intestines and is an animal of prey; the tame cat has long intestines, and betrays her old character only now and then by cunning and slyness.
From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Bernstein, Aaron David
Man is by nature an animal of prey, educated by the complicated relations of society, but readily relapsing into his old habits.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In no other place than an island, uninhabited by man or any other animal of prey, could the helpless dodo have existed.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 by Chambers, William
She had recently dropped her calf, and he at once conjectured that it had been attacked, and perhaps killed, by some animal of prey.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
