How to Use prey on/upon in a Sentence
prey on/upon
phrasal verb-
They’ve been known to scale or dig beneath fences to prey on pets.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
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On land, birds, crabs, and small mammals prey on eggs and hatchlings.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
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This is due to that area's seal population, which the sharks prey on.
—Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 30 June 2022
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Wolves kill some livestock and hunting dogs each year as well as prey on deer and elk.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
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Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
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The case leads them down a rabbit hole where rich predators prey on the innocent.
—Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
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Other big cats and eagles are known to prey on cheetahs.
—Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
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The king of the dinosaurs may have not been the only Cretaceous carnivore to prey on its own kin.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
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How do Burmese pythons eat? Burmese pythons prey on mammals, birds and other reptiles.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
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That’s because there are so many animals that prey on smolts.
—oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
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As the dead awaken and prey on the living, a group of people take shelter at a farmhouse and try to survive a very dark night.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2022
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High transaction fees add to worries that they can be used to prey on poor people.
—Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
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Of the species humans prey on, almost 40 percent are threatened.
—Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
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These arthropods are more likely to prey on ticks when they are fully engorged with blood.
—Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
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There is no reason this person should ever be set free again to prey on others.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
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The deer caught on camera likely had been swimming for its life, as gators have been known to prey on them and smaller mammals.
—Simone Jasper The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 4 May 2023
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Wolves also prey on livestock in the agriculture-rich West.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
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Once the parasite decides to prey on your dog, the substance activates in its body.
—Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2022
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Birds prey on dragonflies, but Burne said he’s also seen fish jump out of the water and take dragonflies from the air.
—Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
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But overall the new research found that only about half of the species humans prey on end up being eaten.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
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She is not used to hulking radroaches that prey upon human-size meals.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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The bears are more likely to prey on live ungulates during the spring calving season.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
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But some coyotes will also prey on small livestock, poultry and small pets.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2024
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Walking in the forest with a bird of prey on my hunting glove was unbelievable.
—Lisa Niver, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
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That's when fisheries managers began to stock non-native predator fish in Lake Michigan to prey on the alewives.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
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Crankbaits: Usually trolled via a flatline or lead-core or run off to one side of the boat with a side planer, crankbaits mimic the small baitfish that walleyes prey on.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
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The hornets are two-inch-long aggressive predators that prey on honey bees.
—Robert Gearty, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2020
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But wolves prey on fawns at shockingly higher rates in these areas compared to elsewhere, the study shows.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2023
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Davis said serial killers tend to prey on people on the margins of society.
—Aria Jones, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
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This is why wolves have been known to prey on livestock when the opportunity arises.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
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