PREDATOR in a Sentence

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One of the big issues in raising quail is that predators eat the young birds about as fast as you can release them.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREDATOR
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predator
 n.  animal that lives by preying on other animals; person who robs or exploits others
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1  The swimmers said the dolphins were extremely agitated and repeatedly slapped the water with their tails, presumably to try to deter the predator as it cruised nearby.
2  The penguins eat krill and small fish, and their main predator is the seal which can take them by surprise.
3  The government has no plans for a wolf cull or a bounty in the province, despite concerns in the cattle industry that the predator population is out of control.
4  The arrival of this South American predator threatened the survival of native species.
5  Sarcastic cameos of barking Tory predators and their yelping spouses indicate his accomplices in this enterprise.
6  The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement.
7  Their natural predators have been killed off.
8  The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
9  One of the big issues in raising quail is that predators eat the young birds about as fast as you can release them.