How to Use predator in a Sentence

predator

noun

• The population of rabbits is controlled by natural predators.
• The eggs can get buried in the nest or be scooped up by a predator, Steers said.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
• As apex predators at the top of the food chain, walleye keep the food web in check.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• Killer whales and leopard seals are both some of the top predators of the Antarctic.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• All of a sudden a predator gets too close—the creature needs to take off.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• And based on the lizard’s teeth, Megalania was a fearsome predator.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• And then there is the endless task of keeping an eye out for predators.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• Stevens and company put the audience in the place of both the predator and prey.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• The massive salmon may have used the tusks to ward off predators in the open ocean or defend their nests in the river.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
• Their orphaned calves are left to starve or be killed by predators.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• Why would a mother bird make any sound that could attract predators to the nest?
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
• And when the pests in question are gone, this will mean fewer of the predators that keep their numbers in check.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 July 2023
• This would apply to many more species than just that of the world’s most famous mega-predator.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• The two protected the eggs from predators, cold weather and snow.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
• Playing around is just a part of learning how to be an apex predator.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2023
• The human's presence may scare away the mother, who sees the human as a predator.
  — Mika Travis, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
• In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2024
• In our story, Lydia Tár comes to be viewed as a predator.
  — Somtow Sucharitkul, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Who needs a movie that is almost all predators, with barely a word from their prey?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
• Caught between predator and prey, Potter gets rammed twice by the shark.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 30 Aug. 2023
• Amongst the monkey herds, the predators tend to be more successful at hunting.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
• One batch just didn’t like its new spot — and in another case, the plant encountered a predator in the wild.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
• As always, there will be plenty of wall-to-wall coverage of the apex predator.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 23 July 2023
• Nannies lead their kids up gnarly slopes, seeking places that predators fear to tread.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, New York Times, 1 May 2024
• Set 300 years in the past, a young Comanche warrior fights against an alien predator to protect her tribe in this sci-fi thriller.
  — Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
• Beast In this 2022 survival thriller, there can only be one apex predator.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
• Scat Look for doglike scat without the ropy shape common to predator scat.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• The skull will be sold in a live auction, a suitably old-school send-off for a predator who bestrode the world 76 million years ago.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• Seven years ago, Wood told a congressional committee that she had been raped and repeatedly abused but did not name the alleged predator.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
• The footprints are the first physical proof that different hominin species overlapped in exactly the same time and space, dodging predators and finding food in the ancient landscape, according to the study.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024