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Example sentences for: preying

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By a.d. 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century.
A group of African-American intellectuals is mounting a behind-the-scenes campaign to persuade Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush to speak out on what one sociologist has called "the unspoken domestic crisis of the next millennium": White criminals preying on white people.
Or should the TAS build and patrol walls around the TPS to keep adventurers and entrepreneurs from preying on the TPS?