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
• On land, birds, crabs, and small mammals prey on eggs and hatchlings.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• This is due to that area's seal population, which the sharks prey on.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 30 June 2022
• 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
• Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The case leads them down a rabbit hole where rich predators prey on the innocent.
  — Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
• Other big cats and eagles are known to prey on cheetahs.
  — Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
• 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
• That’s because there are so many animals that prey on smolts.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• 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
• High transaction fees add to worries that they can be used to prey on poor people.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• Of the species humans prey on, almost 40 percent are threatened.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• These arthropods are more likely to prey on ticks when they are fully engorged with blood.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• There is no reason this person should ever be set free again to prey on others.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Wolves also prey on livestock in the agriculture-rich West.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
• Once the parasite decides to prey on your dog, the substance activates in its body.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• The bears are more likely to prey on live ungulates during the spring calving season.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• Walking in the forest with a bird of prey on my hunting glove was unbelievable.
  — Lisa Niver, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The hornets are two-inch-long aggressive predators that prey on honey bees.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Davis said serial killers tend to prey on people on the margins of society.
  — Aria Jones, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
• This is why wolves have been known to prey on livestock when the opportunity arises.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
• Scammers are trying to prey on some of the 44 million Americans who are set to start making their first payments in more than three years.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Scammers love to prey on fans of any artist or sporting event by claiming to have impossible-to-get-tickets for them.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2023
• During this time of year, the FBI tends to see even more scams of the fake charity variety, as scammers prey on people's emotions.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
• Coyotes may prey on the small mammals and birds attracted to a backyard bird feeder or garden.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024