Sample Sentences for
predator
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(editor-reviewed)

predator as in:  the lion is a predator

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    Owls and coyotes are the primary predators that threaten our kittens.
    predators = animals that hunt and eat other animals
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    —a Tyrannosaurus rex, the mightiest predator the earth had ever known—  (source)
    predator = a type of animal that hunts and eats other animals
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    All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into at immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds.  (source)
    predator = dangerous person who might kill
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    Downstream a disturbance shook the water, and a dozen silvery cigar-sized fish jumped in unison, trying to escape some hungry predator.  (source)
    predator = an animal that hunts and eats other animals
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    Game becomes seemingly plentiful in the fall (it's easier to see with the leaves off the brush) but in winter it gets scarce and sometimes simply nonexistent as predators (fox, lynx, wolf, owls, weasels, fisher, martin, northern coyote) sweep through areas and wipe things out.  (source)
    predators = animals that hunt and eat other animals
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    The yellow-spotted lizards like to live in holes, which offer shade from the sun and protection from predatory birds.  (source)
    predatory = hunting for food
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    The cause was the so-called superpredator.†  (source)
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    In a general way we mean how our species' excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    In fact, the "bloodbath" school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low.†  (source)
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    Instantly, Kya's good eye probed the forest for signs of Chase or some other predator.  (source)
    predator = dangerous person or animal
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    The other kids stared at us, whispering among themselves, but they also kept their distance, as if they hadn't decided whether we were predators or prey.  (source)
    predators = people who victimize others
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    Roland moves toward her in a slow, predatory stride.  (source)
    predatory = hunting-like
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    The superpredator, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, mad-cow disease, crib death: how can we fail to heed the expert's advice on these horrors when, like that mean uncle telling too-scary stories to too-young children, he has reduced us to quivers?†  (source)
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predator as on: a sexual predator

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    The executive was exposed as a sexual predator who manipulated young employees under the guise of mentorship.
    predator = someone who victimizes others
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    They are predatory lenders who mislead their customers.
    predatory = exploiting or victimizing others
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    Ma had told her older sisters to watch out for them; if you look tempting, men turn into predators.  (source)
    predators = people who victimize others
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It was a cruel mouth now, cruel and predatory.  (source)
predatory = of someone who victimizes others
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    That same year, on 30 October, another US Predator hit a madrasa on a hill near the main town of Khar, killing eighty-two people, many of them young boys.  (source)
    Predator = a type of  military drone
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    On 17 June 2004 an unmanned Predator dropped a Hellfire missile on Nek Mohammad in South Waziristan, apparently while he was giving an interview by satellite phone.  (source)
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