How to use in-sentence of “prey”:
+ The prey dies of suffocation.
+ If the prey is a caterpillar, they paralyze it by injecting it with Poisonvenom through their ovipositor.
+ Although taking on larger prey presents a risk to the animal, the bounty provided by killing them can outweigh the risks.
+ They can see small prey from a distance.
+ Echidnas pick up the prey with their sticky tongues.
+ When the shark finds a prey, it chases the prey into a crevice or small cave, trapping it.
+ Usually, a bird will sit on a low branch and wait for prey to pass by.
+ It is common for small prey animals to make their head less visible.
Example sentences of “prey”:
+ Most use echolocation to catch prey and to find their way about.
+ A venomous snake is a snake that uses snake venomvenom on prey to stop them and for self-defense.
+ Experiments have shown that “Deinopis spinosus” has two different techniques for trapping prey: backwards strikes to catch flying insects, whose vibrations it detects; and forward strikes to catch ground-walking prey that it sees.
+ Victims who claimed to have fallen prey to the influence of incubi, could in reality have been victims of sexual assault by a real person.
+ Larger species have been known to prey on small lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, and even rodents.
+ Anacondas kill by constricting the prey until it can no longer breathe.
+ The fractures suggest they may have hunted by leaping onto their prey and stabbing or even wrestling it to the ground.
+ Most use echolocation to catch prey and to find their way about.
+ A venomous snake is a snake that uses snake venomvenom on prey to stop them and for self-defense.
+ The larger ones prey on small bottom-dwelling fish.
+ It is also difficult for most spiders to capture prey that are very much smaller than they are.
+ For larger prey animals this can be effective if linked to another defence.
+ This means that many dire wolves would hunt for prey together.
More in-sentence examples of “prey”:
+ They may follow a circuitous course, sometimes even a course that takes the hunter through places where the prey is not visible.
+ Siberian tigers prey on adult moose.
+ The claws were well-suited to holding prey and for climbing trees.
+ They were prey for the wolves, Arctodusbears, lions and “Smilodon”.
+ Snakes which eat toxic prey have to use ways to survive the prey‘s toxins.
+ Elapids use their venom both to immobilize their prey and in self-defense.
+ There are several different types of “Orca”, each of which has different living and prey habits.
+ A third possibility is that the prey is too small to bother with.
+ A “top predator” or “apex predator” is one that is not the prey of other predators.
+ The Bittacidae, or hangingflies, are a prominent family of elongate insects known for their elaborate mating rituals, in which females choose mates based on the quality of gift prey offered by various males.
+ Bats rely on their ears to find prey by echolocation.
+ During the night, the whitetip reef shark becomes very active, and searches for prey along the bottom.
+ The size of the eyes and the sclerotic rings suggests that “Ophthalmosaurus” hunted at a depth where there is not much light or that it may have hunted at night when a prey species was more active.
+ They can use echolocation to find prey that is a short distance away.
+ The reason they do this is so they can ambush prey which come close to it.
+ Most mantids are ambush predators, waiting for prey to stray too near.
+ Arachnids pour digestive juices produced in their stomachs over their prey after killing it with their pedipalps and chelicerae.
+ Only that the killer does not want to kill his prey too soon as he starts playing with him/her in a kind of gloomy game of cat and mouse.
+ Pseudopods can also capture prey by phagocytosis.
+ These spiders catch their prey by jumping on them.
+ Some spiders in species of “Portia” can take long detours from one bush down to the ground, then up the stem of another bush to capture a prey item on a particular leaf.
+ It is an advantage for such potential prey to advertise their status in a way clearly perceptible to their predators; this is called “aposematic” or warning colouration.
+ They can open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if the prey is larger in diameter than the snake itself.
+ The Philippine eagle is a bird of prey that can be found only in the Philippines.
+ They may follow a circuitous course, sometimes even a course that takes the hunter through places where the prey is not visible.
+ Siberian tigers prey on adult moose.
+ The claws were well-suited to holding prey and for climbing trees.
+ Some species, like “Drosera glanduligera” can curl its tentacles towards its prey in less than a second.
+ They use silk to make shelters like tube tents in trees, to line burrows if they live on the ground, and they all use silk to wrap up prey before they eat it.
+ It may have been a sub-adult, and must have eaten different prey than “Tyrannosaurus”.
+ A few lambs fall prey to foxes or eagles.
+ Ground squirrels are the most abundant prey of the steppe polecat throughout the year.
+ Scavenging birds, such as vultures, will gorge themselves when prey is abundant, causing their crop to bulge.
+ They are birds of prey which, along with hawks and eagles, are from the family Accipitridae.
+ The oceanic whitetip shark is mainly solitary and swims slowly, and is usually seen cruising near the top of the water column, covering large amounts of empty water, searching for prey or any food source.
+ Brittle stars are mostly scavengers and detrivores, able to catch some small prey on occasion.
+ Since the general area was a riverine delta, the prey may have been fish.
+ Eleonora’s falcons have been seen building up larders of up to 20 dead birds during migration season, when prey is plentiful.
+ Least weasels sometimes kill prey larger than themselves, such as Western capercailliecapercaillie, hares.
+ McCasker said that a shark will attack dangerous prey like an elephant seal by biting it once and then letting go.
+ Although the Bull shark has no real predators, young Bull sharks have been known to fall prey to Tiger sharks, Sandbar sharks, and even adult Bull sharks.
+ Many waders have sensitive nerve endings at the end of their bills which let them detect prey hidden in mud or soft soil.
+ It could grasp prey with both hands.
+ Lynx prey mostly on small to fairly large sized mammals and birds.
+ This strategy might have allowed the prey to recover and be fed upon again later.
+ The same principle works with aquatic predators: if their prey goes in shoals or family groups, then the predators go in groups.
+ The venom would kill the prey fast enough, but they usually seize their prey and swallow it.
+ The Eurasian lynx thus prefers fairly large ungulate prey, especially during winter when small prey is less abundant.
+ When it attacks prey it goes closer and then snatches it with both hands.