How to Use predatory in a Sentence

predatory

adjective

• Hawks are predatory and may pose a danger to rabbits and other small pets.
• The company made millions for investors but clearly engaged in predatory lending practices.
• The predatory fish made a meal out of the shark, swallowing it whole.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
• For me, the answer to that is wrapped up in the predatory nature of this business.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 23 May 2023
• There’s small fish, not bigger than a grain of rice, all the way up to your large predatory fish, tiger sharks.
  — Laura Klairmont, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
• These predatory fish can be found in freestone creeks, big rivers, and large lakes.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 22 May 2024
• I’ts not just the predatory European men the children have to look out for.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2022
• Among the predatory insects that feed on aphids are several types of wasps.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• Ctenophores are predatory sea creatures that live at widely varying depths across the world’s oceans.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
• He’s pissed off about food deserts and predatory chain restaurants and the culture that makes people crave those things at the expense of their own welfare.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• The kind of predatory behavior and abuse that Dozier described happens all the time.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Liverpool were soon on level terms though, as Mane showed predatory instincts in the box to flick home Lovren's header to equalise.
  — SI.com, 26 May 2018
• Does that mean there is no longer any predatory behavior in this business?
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• The clip featured references to both Spears’ passion for dance and the predatory nature of paparazzi.
  — Kyle-Brandon Denis, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
• This keeps the hundred or so wild bettongs and other native wildlife safe from predatory foxes and cats.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2018
• Her friends and family warned her about scams and predatory tactics.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2018
• In the run-up to the 2007 financial crisis, mortgage lenders issued predatory loans to people who couldn’t afford to pay them back.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
• Horror stories often involve monsters, and those predatory men are among the ugliest in the book.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Vultures, in the popular mind, are predatory birds that seek out the carcasses of animals that have died.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• The move is the latest attempt by the ticketing giant to combat the predatory secondary market.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
• Great white sharks can grow up to 20-feet long and weigh up to 2.5 tons, making them the largest predatory fish to roam the sea, according to National Geographic.
  — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
• Pociu said the types of fish being tested include smallmouth bass, which is a predatory game fish, and white suckers, a bottom feeder.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 13 July 2019
• Murky, fast-moving water allows small Chinook to escape the hungry jaws of predatory fish such as striped bass.
  — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 2 May 2018
• Monkfish, also known as goosefish, are predatory fish that camouflage themselves on the ocean bottom and can grow to be about 5 feet long.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• The pair become a couple; but when Olsen decides to join the Union army and goes off to fight the civil war, Vivienne is left to fend off the attentions of a predatory local official.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 13 June 2024
• This line of thinking is based on the idea that highly profitable businesses are always predatory.
  — Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 15 June 2021
• These two causes are linked in the resistance against Trump, as a defense of the public good against predatory private interests.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2018
• In 2010, Wells Fargo agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the predatory lending practice.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• This coincided with the evolution of two large predatory birds: Haast’s eagle and Eyles’ harrier.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, Japanese eels opt to back their way out of the digestive tract, tail first, through the esophagus, emerging from the predatory fish's gills.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024