Predatory
a predator - an animal that kills and eats other animals, a person who tries to gain by cheating and stealing from other peoplepredatory (adjective)
predators lurking - people waiting at a place unseen, who intend to do bad things to other people
predatory business practices
predatory takeovers
predatory business behaviour
predatory trading practice
Are you predatory?
predatory pricing
predatory beasts
Persian carpets and the ferocious hides of predatory beasts hanging from the walls
she was simply greedy rather than predatory
our species is conditioned by 5 million years of predatory experience
the citizenry is oppressed by predatory government
the most vicious, predatory, and intractable convicts in our penal system today
the oppressive hand of predatory government most keenly felt there
the magazine called you a predatory, capitalistic brainiac, how do you feel about that?
The walls were erected to protect the people from rampaging, predatory animals.
there was one predatory carnivore for every four hundred grass eating cows
the creature's predatory habits
faced with the threat of predatory takeover bids
the process sounds primitive and predatory
vulnerable to attack by predatory spirits of various types, who are said to bite the souls of their victims
a nocturnal predatory fish, best kept in a species only aquarium
like a cat with its prey, threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff
the old claw-and-fang world of drab, predatory, reptilian aggression
it seems that the species' predatory prowess, like man's, depends far more on brains than brawn.
he looked around the place with a predatory smile
They looked wonderfully alive, agile and predatory,
the skyrocketing price was prompted not by predatory oil companies or greedy producers but by the internationally agreed-upon embargo of Iraq
lithe as a predatory feline, Recabarren had been guarding his experimental, top of the line' 87 Ferrari
In a predatory world, their lives are filled with great risk
I recognize the urge as a predatory instinct to kill. Man is a predator -- has been for tens of thousands of years.
Elsewhere we have shown that what's poisonous to a predatory fish may also be toxic to a virus or a cancer cell
Like predatory birds they are cunning
The nose gave him a slightly predatory air, which Wendy found both exciting and alarming at the same time. "
She smiled in a faintly predatory way.
A predatory glint in Anlock's eyes and a twist of irony in his expression alerted her
predatory stealth
the dark cat weaved slowly among them with predatory stealth
abandoned his predatory ways during his exile
predatory cats
predatory birds
predatory businessmen
predatory insects
predatory scheming
Washington would have been disinclined to retaliate for Japan's predatory trade practices against American firms in South Africa
predatory animals
predatory animals can prepare themselves for the activity of hunting and hunted animals can escape to safety before it is too late
men of the predatory kind
his face, sharp-boned and predatory
predatory hawklike features
predatory landlords
nose that sharpened with the years made her look predatory
predatory logging in the Amazon
he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his
she saw his lips drawn back to reveal a dazzle of predatory teeth
the predatory trade strategies of other governments
a predatory species
predatory pricing to drive out a rival or an entrant
the fare prosposals were predatory
predatory pricing to dominate a market
I saw this predatory, outraged expression building on Ash's face like a line of dark clouds on the horizon
trying to escape from predatory men
build predatory stakes in various companies
ancient predatory soldiery
the activities of predatory and scavenging animals destroying the remains
cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties
condemnation of predatory male sexuality in the rhetoric of female moral reformers of the 1830s
Example sentences:
* Buying Sterling Trust shareholdings has helped Suter build predatory stakes in various companies.
* Like a cat with its prey, Microsoft has been toying with its competition, threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff.
* Faced with the threat of predatory takeover bids, companies strove to ensure that their accounts emphasised success.
* This has, undoubtedly, over the last few decades, brought many rural people in the Third World into the towns and cities, whether forced off their lands by hunger or predatory landlords, or as willing migrants in search of a better life.
* And that nose which seemed to sharpen with the years made her look predatory…
* Greenpeace has launched a campaign against predatory logging in the Amazon.
* Branson himself said that he welcomed the ruling, if it accepted that the fare proposals were predatory, but that he was `;obviously disturbed'; if the decision had been taken as a political move to stop Virgin applying in the US courts for remedies under the anti-trust laws.
* Furthermore, price-cutting can in some circumstances be anticompetitive: predatory pricing to drive out a rival or an entrant, or low prices seeking to mislead entrants about the efficiency of the incumbent firms are cases in point (Milgrom and Roberts, 1982).
* There is a further problem of distinguishing fair competition (lower prices, better quality) from anticompetitive behaviour, such as predatory pricing, which is the third means by which firms may come to dominate a market (Ordover and Saloner, 1989).
* The predatory roar of a lion, the angry bellow of an enraged bull, the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep, keeping the flock together.
* Tall trees and dense shrubs accommodate nesting birds, abundant flowers provide food for bees, butterflies and hoverflies, heavy crops of fruit and seed support birds and insects, good ground cover shelters predatory beetles, centipedes and spiders, and accumulations of dead and rotting vegetation serve as feeding and breeding sites for slugs, woodlice and insects of many sorts.
* Predatory animals can prepare themselves for the activity of hunting and hunted animals can escape to safety before it is too late.
* The last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiery, the last would-be conquerors....
* Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties, not minding their tanned fingers in his hair, on his face or twanging his braces.
* This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation --; break-up of skeletons after death, the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment, and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains.
* These include the mobile and predatory crabs and lobsters, the echinoderms --; starfish, brittle-stars, sea-urchins and sea-cucumbers; molluscs such as the predatory whelk, and octopuses.
* But there are plenty of predatory young women around, whom he might think would be able to give him a son…
* Just turned forty, Frank is married to his job, his wife has left him for a colleague, and when he encounters the predatory Helen (Ellen Barkin) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect.
* Described in this way, the process sounds primitive and predatory.
* A Polypterus palmus is a nocturnal predatory fish, best kept in a species only aquarium.
* It is vulnerable to attack by predatory spirits of various types, who are said to bite the souls of their victims.
* But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time, they have remained essentially predatory.
* The late Mesozoic radiation of predatory crabs, neogastropods and teleosts correlates with an increase in resistance to destruction of the shells of their molluscan prey (Vermeij, 1977; Ward, 1981).
* Lady Caroline is trying to escape from predatory men.
* Financial assistance may be required to meet the `;front end'; costs of marketing and establishing distribution and service networks, as well as there being policies to protect the domestic market from other governments' predatory trade strategies, such as dumping and the provision of credit packages on tenders for major development projects.
* I saw this predatory, outraged expression building on Ash's face like a line of dark clouds on the horizon, and stopped talking, though entirely out of inquisitiveness, not trepidation.
* His face remained when the others had gone, sharp-boned and predatory, his eyes hungry, his smile still giving her the creeps.
* Men of the predatory kind, that is, like Captain Goldsborough.
* He tilted her chin upwards, forcing her to look into his predatory hawklike features, his thumb rubbing against the fullness of her lower lip.
* But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his, or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly, but all at once an idea popped into her head.
* Defiance made her turn her back, but the sound of a dark laugh sent a chill through her and, jerking her head round, she saw his lips drawn back to reveal a dazzle of predatory teeth.
* Wreathed with white wistaria, they are half-hidden behind a ghostly phalanx of variegated osteospermum, Salvia argentea , white allium and a banksiae rose which has managed to escape predatory Wicklow deer.
