How to Use predation in a Sentence

predation

noun

• This can lead to death from shock or predation, or from boat strikes.
  — Maria Morava and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
• Most survive predation to mate and then drop dead to the forest floor.
  — Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2021
• Ranchers rage at them for their predation of lambs and calves.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
• The move was designed to reduce predation by gulls and other birds on the small fish.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• Fawns are dropping around the country right now and many won’t make it through the spring and summer due to predation.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
• According to Muller, the calf’s mother was tucked away in the weeds nearby when the predation event took place.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2024
• During their early years the trees are subject to predation and the volatile whims of nature.
  — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
• Like the spiny cone, their chemistry is a defense against predation.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Forgive my sarcasm; predation brings out the worst in me.
  — Maiysha Kai, The Root, 18 July 2017
• But the column and the letter did not mention the issue of predation by free-ranging cats on wildlife.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 2 July 2017
• Birds can be a real source of predation for mason bees.
  — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2021
• The outdoor pens are covered by a net top to prevent predation.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• At other white shark hot spots around the world there is always a kill zone — a place where more predation events occur.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 July 2019
• Where the movie does score, however, echoing the temper of our times, is in alerting us to the murmur of predation.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• But in sites with active cougar predation, the donkeys were only seen during the day.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, buzzards are circling blue skies over the cornfield, a telltale sign of predation in the shadows of the stalks.
  — Casey Ross Reprints, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• This would help determine which pod might have been involved in the predation.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• Likely for the sake of avoiding predation, the helmets can take the form of thorns, leaves, feces or even other bugs, like ants or wasps.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2019
• In the wild, tapirs face predation from large cats, such as jaguars and pumas in the Americas and tigers in Asia, as well as crocodiles.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2024
• This study is the first to focus on the direct impacts of human predation on other species.
  — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• It is theorized that this is in order to blunt the impact of predation: in this case by squirrels.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
• Shark predation of a seal off Race Point this afternoon.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
• Second, beetle predation on eggs hasn’t yet been observed in the wild.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
• Half of the Spix’s macaws have died, mostly from predation, or disappeared.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• As such, more of the bay’s waters are ice-free, and harbor seals must go elsewhere to find icebergs on which to give birth to their pups, safe from predation.
  — The Guardian, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
• And those constraints have forced Ryan to choose what really matters to him: the protection of the makers from the predations of the takers.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Apr. 2018
• Of course, herbivory, or plant predation, is not ideal for a plant’s survival.
  — Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
• Hiding their scat is thought to be an ancient response to the danger of predation by larger cats.
  — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• By contrast, the newest mummy is missing much of one side of its body, including most of the intestines—the result of predation, according to the authors.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
• As Tyler points out, most deer that contract ocular plague die of predation or starvation before anyone spots them, making this discovery an outlier.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024