Sentence examples for been preying on from inspiring English sources

"They passed round the bleeding stump, as if they had finally exterminated a wild animal that had been preying on each and every one of them, and saw it there inert and in their power.

There is just one thing, he admits, that has been preying on his mind: "My dad attacked me the other week.

Regardless, I never knew until long after I retired that one of my coaches had, for years, been preying on the gymnasts around me.

It had been preying on my conscience.

It has been preying on his mind.

We know that many financial advisors have been preying on their clients.

"Whatever else Jonathan Martin is the victim of, he has been preyed on by a form of ugly, vestigial, brutalizing masculinity.

Ukip is preying on people's fears.

"It's preying on poor people".

Another is that "they're preying on our materialistic souls".

Holman nods in agreement: "They're preying on the weak".