Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use predatory in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word predatory? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
In Madagascar one character, a lion, must rediscover his predatory instincts to stay alive.
But there is another group that adds fuel to the fire, and that is predatory young men.
He was a bit special then, a little cub with the predatory instincts of a full-grown hunting lion.
Centipedes are predatory, feeding on soil invertebrates such as earthworms and terrestrial insects.
Previous studies indicate that expanded brain volume in predatory mammals leaves less room for jaw muscles.
But predatory birds attack from above, relying on their excellent vision to sight prey during daylight.
Society increasingly perceives individuals to be passive victims of abusive and predatory corporations.
He had been as predatory as the other young men he ran with, as eager to seduce and devirginize as they.
A number of predatory fish, including the introduced tilapia species, wiped out most of the river's water beetles and bugs.
A predatory fish may eat it, or a strong current may dash it against a rock.
It's a formula centred around an almost predatory, sexually-confident brand of glamour.
The whelk-enclosure experiment demonstrated that the predatory whelk affected not only survivorship but also growth rate of the clam.
His tail is lashing wildly, as he eyes me coldly with a predatory stare, and snarls loudly.
For sheer size and predatory power, the killer whale is probably the closest thing to a living Tyrannosaurus rex on Earth today.
Unfortunately, predatory adults are already using the recent disaster to exploit these imperiled children.
We saw predatory birds hunting, which is not uncommon as Transylvania also hosts wild boars and wolves.
He will reawaken the dryads, who will become predatory while their wardens sleep.
Several groups developed active predatory larvae, still showing the spoon-shaped labium.
Some specialist sawfly adults sequester diterpenoids for protection against predatory birds and lizards.
Instead of finding something for her to eat, she found a nest of large insects of the predatory variety.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
The Opossum is fond of secluding itself during the day, although it by no means confines its predatory rangings to the night.
His courage might have been predatory, for he certainly liked to eat lobster.
See here, this creature, imperfect as it is, represents the predatory machine.
Thus, within one individual both parasitic and predatory behavior are operant during different stages of its life history.
It was the evening before his return to school, and there was a predatory look in his eye.
These economies are predatory in the sense that they engage in zero-sum games.
What remembrances does this imply of the hunt, what of the predatory dark?
The 9ft-long nearcomplete juvenile Allosaurus is the first predatory dinosaur skeleton to be sold in Britain, auctioneers said.
Convergent evolution of eye ultrastructure and divergent evolution of vision-mediated predatory behaviour in jumping spiders.
Since the mid-1980s academic and public discourses have depicted African masculinity as both precarious and predatory.
And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells.
More difficult is discerning which of the swarthily handsome local bar patrons are being genuinely friendly and which are predatory rent boys.
But you can't take a predatory, savage pirate and love him into decency!
His heart burned for the foray, the ambush, the skirmish, the scamper, and all the haps and hazards of roving and predatory warfare.
Yet she didn't fly back to her mountains because at bottom she had an indomitable character, a peasant tenacity of purpose, predatory instincts.
Since his death there was no one with sufficient influence over the tribe to restrain the wild and predatory propensities of the young men.
Surrounded as we are by predatory enemies our herdsmen must indeed be warriors or we should have no herds, and you may be assured they get plenty of fighting.
They had to traverse the most dreary and desolate mountains, and barren and trackless wastes, uninhabited by man, or occasionally infested by predatory and cruel savages.
These predatory fish, in turn, reduce numbers of Grammarus locusta, herbivorous crustaceans which are effective grazers that normally control the filamentous algae.
As the title of the film would suggest, Dennis is a gentle giant, and unlike some American and European men, he is not going to Thailand for cravenly predatory reasons.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
9-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024