Example sentences for: predatory

How can you use “predatory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His original argument that predatory price cutting can't work (and therefore needn't be illegal) was that it will always cost the predator more than the intended victim, because the predator is selling more units during the price war in which both parties are losing money.

  • seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.

  • Attempting a comprehensive assessment, their widely cited recent paper (Myers and Worm 2003) indicated that the global ocean has lost more than 90% of large predatory fishes, such as marlin, sharks, and rays.

  • Perhaps more significantly, the populations remained sheltered from the potential onslaught of competing bacteria and predatory viruses, which could conceivably drastically alter their performance.

  • "(They take) cases like preserving an elderly person's home being foreclosed because of a predatory loan," Roodman said, "or an illegal eviction of a person who will become homeless.


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