Sentence examples for had been prey from inspiring English sources

Since the beginning of the 1999 academic year, the dormitory had been prey to 18 false fire alarms, many of them occurring in the middle of the night and often caused by student pranks.

A barely literate East European immigrant, Malkah came from a village in Galicia, where she had been prey to war, near-starvation and the region's ever shifting -- but invariably anti-Semitic -- governments.

It had been preying on my conscience.

Somers's orders were to blow up the ship amid the pirate flotilla that had been preying on American trade.

One girl after another came up to me and described how the pastor had been preying on girls.

Predators were identified for 250 of 369 depredated nests, of which 80% had been preyed upon by birds, 12% by mammals, and 7% by reptiles.

The Islamists came to power in 2006 by uniting clan militias and driving away the warlords who had been preying upon the population.

In midsummer of 1845, de Smet began his yearlong search for the powerful Blackfeet, who had been preying upon the Flatheads and other weaker tribes.

"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.

The police yesterday asked for the public's help in finding a parole violator who they said had been preying on women in Queens and Manhattan for the last four weeks, committing four sexual assaults and seven robberies.

In 2006, Islamist troops teamed up with clan elders and businessmen to drive out the warlords who had been preying upon Somalia's people since the central government first collapsed in 1991.