Example sentences for: prey

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

  • *vamp, a featherless bird of prey

  • You--sitting in a well-upholstered recliner, casually sipping something top-shelf and free of little umbrellas, poking lackadaisically at a morsel of takeout--have only to dance your fingertips across the keyboard to condemn us as we fall prey to writing "things prohibited in high schools" or "new ways to pick up interns."

  • They need muzzles for biting, to defend themselves, and to attack prey, whereas possessors of hands can fashion and chuck a spear or throw a punch.

  • It said there is no need for a further law on full emergency rule, "nor should Moscow police fall prey to the traditional temptation to arrest every dark-skinned man in the capital."

  • Fifty-nine thousand sheep and lambs fell prey to Wyoming's 100,000 coyotes last year.


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