prey
Example Sentences
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Apparently he wasn’t very good at getting along with the chickens on their farm; seems he saw them more as prey than his farm friends.
From Literature
They say the schemes prey on fear of the legal system and the social stigma that comes with being associated with criminal investigations, trapping even highly educated professionals.
Some social media users and experts say these AI takes on popular shows are nothing but cheap entertainment preying on shortened attention spans.
From BBC
“She had difficulties already in her life, and there’s no sugar coating that. So we had to navigate this argument that what social-media addiction does is it preys upon the vulnerable more times than not.”
For starters, a large shark population reflects a healthy ocean with plentiful prey.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
