Sentence examples for a prey from inspiring English sources

'a prey' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone or something who is vulnerable to attack. For example, you could say, "The injured animal was easy prey for its predator."

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Like an animal and a prey — vroom!

It is a prey to all sorts of intellectual quackery.

"You feel a bit like a prey animal.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,.

The father was a prey to phobias and drink; women were a prey to him; father and son disagreed on almost every issue politics, Jews, feminism, the bomb.

"It's a rare thing to see a predator running after a prey.

Was Stevenson a prey to urges that threatened to produce a lustful night life?

So it's a 'big ask' to have a predator riding on a prey animal's back".

Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone..

This internal discord made Italy a prey to invading foreigners, Spanish, French, and German.

The bane of the race of men roamed forth, hunting for a prey in the high hall.

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