predators
Example Sentences
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This area, often called a dead zone, offers shelter from predators that cannot easily survive there.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Killer whales are highly intelligent apex predators and have been known to play with their prey and deploy sophisticated tactics to ensnare them.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Around small cities and suburbs, the predators follow their keen sense of smell to dumpsters, cars and homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
With all our resources and good intentions, California can’t continue to let predators win simply because they’re more organized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Sometimes bears, wolves, and other predators are already south, working the sheep farms down where it is more settled—they take a terrible toll of sheep—and we catch them on the way back through.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
