What is "preyed"

Usage examples of "preyed".

But then, she felt sorry for the wildlife that house cats preyed on, and the rabbits and opossums and skunks and domestic pets flattened on the road.

How close he felt to those he preyed upon as he cradled them in his dark embrace.

The suspicion that she laughed too, when she said it, preyed upon my mind all the time I was dressing.

He could have preyed upon the villagers without mercy, taking what he needed to survive, yet he existed on the blood of sheep mixed with wine, taking human blood only when necessary, and then only in small amounts.

Evidently the activity at the site had driven away the larger grazers they normally preyed on.

He was an enemy of organized society, he preyed ever upon his fellows.

You screwed up once by trying to use dope runners and the kind of unsavory buyers who are preyed on by the likes of Mitch Malloy.

Since nothing preyed on the snakes, they had no fear of anything, even man.

The strike forces informal headquarters was Ted Sizemore s suite at the Royale, or whatever suite Sizemore took in whatever city was hosting a gem show big enough to draw dealers and the thieves and hijackers who preyed on them.

After they left, the larger vermin would come, and when they gave up, the insects would move in, and the creepers that preyed on those.

Now the weakest village lord, and his bad decisions, could kill all the rest of the people in the world, and vermin had begun to be a threat, much bolder than ordinary, much bolder than they had been since the war, when they had gathered thick about the battles and preyed on the wounded… the vermin could change their habits, and had begun to encroach, even within the line, where beshti feet cracked shells and where seething masses in the night and the blowing sand denoted some latrine left by a prior tribe.

So they all took the chance, and even while they were occupied at that, Marak saw five and six of the beetles that haunted such sites, and one of the creepers that preyed on the beetles, though the sand was blowing and quickly covering any damp spot.

Small clumps of bodies detached at various places around that edge and floated out… hundreds, thousands of vermin gathered and pressing in on the sweet water, a living carpet of predators and scavengers that fought and preyed on each other, and waited only for the smell of death or waste to draw them all outward in a ravening swarm.