Using "predator" in a sentence

Animation/HBO MaxAdvertisementThe urban jungle of Neo-Gotham has plenty of shadows, and you never know what kind of predator might be lurking inside them.
Source: The A.V. Club

image: The Asian Hornet specimen recovered in Dublin view more  Credit: Dr Aidan O’Hanlon In Europe, the Asian (or “Yellow-legged”) Hornet (Vespa velutina) is a predator of insects such as honeybees, hoverflies, and other wasps, and poses serious risks to apiculture, biodiversity and pollination services.
Source: EurekAlert

Watching a fearsome predator scramble off the bank, through the grass and into the water mere metres away is both thrilling and chilling.
Source: Calgary Herald

“We were taught to fear the puma and that made it easier to hunt them,” Navarra tells Mongabay about Patagonia’s biggest predator and its relationship with the ranchers inhabiting the region.
Source: Mongabay.com

Today, he notes, moose, a herd of bison, and elk can be found wintering in upper Slough Creek, accompanied by diverse predator species.
Source: Mountain Journal

Igor watched as the predator walked calmly back to her own baby.
Source: The Washington Post

The fossil was found at Rutland Water and is the largest UK example of a sea predator from the dinosaur age.
Source: BBC

The point is, for like eight hours on a random Wednesday, as Twitter spun out of control and the US waited to see if rail workers would go on strike, a bunch of netizens got distracted by an extremely high ursine apex predator on a killing spree.
Source: WIRED

The fossilized skin and armor shows injuries where spikes were broken and then healed into a blunted shape, a pattern more consistent with battling other ankylosaurs than suffering an attack from a predator like a tyrannosaur.
Source: CNET

You know, Sam plays a character that would leap off an [Avatar creature] leonopteryx, go flying through the air with no parachute, to land on the biggest, meanest predator on the planet, in order to solve his problem.
Source: Gizmodo

When she encounters a predator who lives to hunt, Naru will do whatever it takes to protect her people.
Source: CBS News

And at a time when Donald Trump has just announced his intention to run again, “She Said” is here to remind us that the man is a sexual predator – not exactly fake news.
Source: ithaca.com

Like animals that sense a predator in the forest, humans tend to stay quiet in a workplace form of “freeze” (from the “fight/flight/freeze” reaction) unless we know we can safely speak up with concerns, fresh ideas, or unique perspectives.
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I’d have deeper and more elaborate tunnels, ant customization and classes, a variety of resource gathering, upgraded and new environments, weather changes, predator defense, and different insect battles.
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And as a theorist, I'm interested in how you genetically wire up a brain so that it is going to be afraid of a predator the first time we encounter one.
Source: Technology Networks

The purring predator has won hearts as the players' unofficial mascot.
Source: BBC

While it was a cousin of speedy little predator Velociraptor, Natovenator was adapted to a semi-aquatic lifestyle in a freshwater ecosystem, perhaps floating on rivers and lakes, paddling with its front limbs, and using its flexible neck to catch fish and insects or diving underwater to capture its prey, the researchers said.
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For his crimes, Hoover was sentenced to 70 years in prison, the longest sentence ever imposed on a child predator in the Western District of North Carolina.
Source: WSOC Charlotte

 At Raintree Nursery, James and Rye have seen success controlling pests using beneficial predator bugs.
Source: Nursery Management

Immediately losing his sex predator label and sprung from prison, Cosby cannot be retried on the same charges.
Source: Deadline

Fishermen, meanwhile, target another predator of the pogie: the striped bass.
Source: The Boston Globe

Our data indicate that Whatcheeria juveniles grew rapidly and reached skeletal maturity quickly, allowing them to occupy a large-bodied predator niche in their paleoenvironment.
Source: Nature.com

One of the most powerful men in Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein, who made films that made millions at the box office and got dozens of Oscar nominations and three Best Picture wins, was a serial sexual predator whose abuses were covered up by his studio with hush money payments.
Source: Roger Ebert

They are a pivotal predator, but their effect on carbon sequestration can be very different depending on the environment in which they’re hunting.
Source: Mongabay.com

Key Features Deer hair tailLead headHook eye positioned for horizontal presentation Pros Can be fished alone or tipped with baits and soft-plastic luresAffordable Cons Don’t stand up well to toothy fish If you’ve got a bucktail jig, there’s nary a predator species in the world you can’t catch.
Source: Field & Stream

The dovetail joints can help keep the hives from being destroyed by their number one predator — bears, Ed Bahr said.
Source: Torrington Register Citizen

Biologists of times past would never have dreamt that deep waters would have much to offer a top predator.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine

While the morality of capturing a known active predator is up for debate, our willingness and ability to “euthanize” a wild animal that follows its instincts has always been and remains unethical.
Source: Los Angeles Times

 There are farmers who welcome an increase in a natural predator that can limit the damage that can be done to crops or vegetables in market gardens, by various rodents – above all the common vole (campagnol des champs), as well to simply mitigate the dramatic loss in snake populations.
Source: The Connexion

The prey she stalks and ultimately confronts turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal — resulting in a vicious and terrifying showdown between the two adversaries.
Source: Variety

In Parts 1 and 2, director Dimmock does a stellar job of taking us through the chronology of Steven’s story, from the time he was kidnapped by one Kenneth Parnell, a monstrous predator who told Steven his parents didn’t want him anymore, took the victim some 360 miles from home to set up in Comptche, California, renamed him Dennis and continually abused the boy for seven years while posing as his father.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times

I’m sending the biggest apex predator I can at this problem.
Source: The Washington Post

But when a local predator that kids nickname The Grabber pulls Finney off the street, his only hope is a peculiar phone in the room he's locked in, and his sister's secret abilities.
Source: Tom's Guide

As the protagonist, Maren Yearly, who finds herself on her own after her dad leaves on her 18th birthday, Taylor Russell brings just the right feral inquisitiveness, with eyes that see right through you and a hungry lean that hints at the predator beneath; her posture, we imagine, might be the same whether she’s tearing into a body or looking for self-knowledge.
Source: Vulture

The group Protect Our Wildlife Vermont has been an outspoken critic of a few forms of hunting, including unregulated predator killing contests and using hounds to chase animals.
Source: St. Albans Messenger

An excellent example–let’s compare the way a natural predator like a lion feeds themselves on meat they’ve killed using their hunting prowess and bare claws– and the way your average westerner will stroll into a supermarket and buy a sanitised pre–packaged, pre–butchered piece of factory–reared animal.
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That did not stop Fitz-Gerald from framing Stevens as this kind of predator like Bryan Marchment.
Source: All About The Jersey

In what amounts to a “neurobiological miracle,” the horse — a prey animal — and the human — a predator — can learn complete neurological co-operation to perform complex feats that neither can manage alone.
Source: Discovery Institute

I spent time by myself researching what it feels like to be a predator and find that primitive animal part of me.
Source: Boston University

It features separate campaigns for the alien, predator, and human space marines, each of them impressively different from the others, along with extensive multiplayer action.
Source: PC Gamer

Yesterday Zoe Kravitz was the sexiest woman ever and today she has to beat predator allegations.
Source: Newsweek

What is it about this objectively dumb premise that is so appealing? A voice-over, emerging in the trailer after the bear sneezes a fine mist of postnasal drip on some children and before he snorts a line off a severed leg, suggests a straightforward explanation to the Why? question: “Apex predator … high on cocaine … out of its mind.
Source: The Atlantic

After traveling for hours in the hopes of seeing one, she would arrive to find a predator there instead.
Source: TIME

Overall, the “apex predator buffet” at camp resulted in quite a spirited discussion before votes were even cast.
Source: Gold Derby

They are pollinators, trash collectors and recyclers, natural fertilizers and soil enrichers, pest destroyers, and both prey and predator for innumerable other species.
Source: Mongabay.com

Scientists are painting a clearer picture of an ancient crocodile-like predator that roamed Iowa 328 million years ago, millions of years before the dinosaurs.
Source: USA TODAY

This predator belonged to a different lineage of theropods — bipedal and mostly meat-eating dinosaurs — than the one that produced modern birds, but its body shape and limbs hint that it swam and dove as a penguin does, scientists recently discovered.
Source: Livescience.com

Besides being a predator and being curious, it draws them in.
Source: Park Rapids Enterprise

One could seriously take so many chapters of his life and blow them up into feature films from the pigeon-loving kid who was bullied into becoming a champion to the violent predator to the boxing legend to the ex-con who somehow became a comedy star in film and television.
Source: Roger Ebert

[Katie Rife]Stream it now Memories Of MurderBong Joon-ho’s masterful policier Memories Of Murder follows the investigation into Korean society’s first serial killer, a methodical, elusive predator who raped and murdered 10 women within a two-kilometer radius.
Source: Boing Boing

Breadcrumb Trail Links World Crime Author of the article: Brad Hunter Publishing date: Dec 11, 2022  •  3 hours ago  •  2 minute read Join the conversation Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who authorities said was identified by DNA evidence as the serial predator dubbed the Golden State Killer, appears at his arraignment in California Superior court in Sacramento April 27, 2018.
Source: Toronto Sun

The predator sightings make sure we don't forget that even in the suburbs the ecosystem retains some of its wildness.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“What is really different about what we found was that we were able to track the change in ecosystem function, from a system governed by pumas as the top predator to a system dominated by this disease and to determine that they're not analogous.
Source: Country Guide

Was that due to wolves taking bigger chances at finding prey, or traveling across a jurisdictional line where their chances of dying by a human predator increased?“This year it looks like they’ve learned — they’re not going out of the park as much,” Cassidy said.
Source: Missoulian

Every summer, she would watch “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator with seven days of dedicated programming.
Source: The Washington Post

  The stepfather also claimed that his stepdaughter "was not the first one, apparently there are almost 20 who have come forward so far," and that  "[Bradford's] a predator and he's taken advantage of these young teenage girls," KPRC 2 reported.
Source: Chron

Igor watched as the predator walked calmly back to her own baby.
Source: Forbes

But even the flightless birds are safe at Orokonui, thanks to a nine-kilometre predator fence around the steeply sloped forest.
Source: The Guardian

“If you grow hundreds or thousands of times bigger than your predator you cannot be consumed by your predator,” said Volland.
Source: The Guardian

What was interesting about it was, “Was that shadow a predator or a protecting parent?” It left it to the imagination of whoever was looking at the image to decide.
Source: Rolling Stone

Whether it was a predator that we were able to avoid, or make a strategy to avoid, or whether it’s something that we could eat and not be poisoned, but survival itself dependent on that novelty reflex.
Source: The New York Times

Stevens and company put the audience in the place of both the predator and prey.
Source: AOL

Can you imagine watching a full-grown Bengal tiger chasing a staff member, catching him or her, and not hurting the person? This act by an apex predator demonstrates their cognitive, (free choice) capacity, and their personal friendship with a human being.
Source: ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix

Photograph: The GuardianKnutsen suggested the elasmosaur may have been “bitten in half” by the apex predator of its day: a 10-metre, 11-tonne kronosaur.
Source: The Guardian

Pav-ti is skilled with a rifle, but is caught off guard by a large feline predator that steals Ahsoka away.
Source: Polygon

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