Sentence examples for looking for prey from inspiring English sources

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One of them landed on a bush and tilted its head, looking for prey.

"We are looking for prey and whether or not the animals are eating.

Growers watch the fields as if looking for prey, waiting for the right day and the afternoon sun to climb into their combines and begin clearing.

Ever since KNOC bought Dana Petroleum - and in truth, before that - punters have been suggesting predatory national oil corporations would be looking for prey in the sector.

Armed with weapons from the looted arsenals of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya, like militant groups in Mali, the young Islamists went door to door that evening, looking for prey, the governor said.

"I don't want to look like no jailhouse bully, looking for prey coming through the gates for the first time – so Joe, don't make me look like that jailhouse bully".

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We chose an area of the forest intercut with rivers, the perfect place for jaguars to look for prey and for us to see them along the relatively open banks.

Thus, a foraging technique commonly used by oropendolas is to insert the tip of the bill into a dead leaf cluster and pry it open with the bill so they can peer inside and look for prey.

SAN DIEGO--When submarines search for enemy vessels or dolphins look for prey, they can use high-pitched pings to view their surroundings.

"They may be using UV as a way to determine whether or not to come to the surface to look for prey, based on the light levels," California State University arachnologist Carl Kloock told Life's Little Mysteries of the nocturnal creatures.

I had some friends that went around the block with that guy on another deal and quite frankly, I get the impression that he's the kind of guy who looks for prey using his 2 AM time slot on NBC as the lure and somehow always turns some sweet soul into road kill.

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