predatory

[US]/ˈpredətri/
[UK]/ˈpredətɔːri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. related to or characteristic of preying on other animals for food or exploiting others for personal gain.

Phrases & Collocations

predatory behavior

predatory instincts

predatory pricing

predatory animals

Example Sentences

a predatory bird; a predatory mammal; a predatory insect.

the abusive and predatory practices of businesses.

bream have strong predatory instincts.

She was safe from predatory birds on the verandah.

the problem is not that they are cutting down trees, but that they are doing it in a predatory way.

in pubs she always felt at the mercy of predatory men.

a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal.

and a little uneven distribution of several groups, both of predatory and omnivory animal competes food and space resources, cause group number of soil animal decreases progressively incompletely;

Real-world Examples

But do the predatory wasps fall for it?

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Compilation August 2014

Predatory pricing is difficult and risky.

Source: Economic Crash Course

Hundreds of millions of predatory mammals by the year 2050.

Source: CNN 10 Student English November 2017 Collection

The birth of predatory journals wasn't far behind.

Source: Past exam papers of the English reading section for the postgraduate entrance examination (English I).

Walmart has been the target of numerous predatory pricing lawsuits.

Source: Economic Crash Course

Not all of his images of women were brutal and predatory.

Source: The Power of Art - Pablo Picasso

But to predatory animals like wolves or tigers, blood smells tasty.

Source: One Hundred Thousand Whys

They're not predatory birds, but they do eat dead meat.

Source: Appreciation of English Poetry

When a predatory lacewing larva approaches, the ladybug twitches, scaring it off.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

When they looked for traces of big predatory dinosaurs, they found none.

Source: The Economist - Technology

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