prey Примеров
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[pɹeɪ] [-eɪ] 
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- Примеры prey
- The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
- The hunters trailed their prey deep into the woods.
- A snake wraps itself around its prey.
- The beast that prowls about in search of blood, / Or reptile that within the treacherous brake / Waits for the prey, upcoiled, its hunger to aslake. ― Southey, Paraguay.
- The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.
- Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug.
- Inexperienced teachers sometimes fall prey to fears that they do not know enough.
- Owls prey on small mammals, such as mice.
- Примеры preyed
- Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.
- Примеры preying
- Ismay and Heather share a festering secret that poisons more than one relationship in this London household before seeping out and infecting all the neighbors — including the homicidally inclined Marion and her abominable brother, Fowler, who have made a career of preying on the love-starved.
- Indeed, while micropredation has been proposed for this alga [56 ] and observed for other Ostreopsis species preying on naked ciliates [57 ], predation on bacterial cells would require feeding strategies [53 ] not yet assessed for Ostreopsidaceae species.
Examples of prey in a Sentence
Источник: Викисловарь