Sentence examples for prey over from inspiring English sources

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"Starfighter," for one, a fearsome assemblage of miscellaneous parts with a terrifying needle nose, hovers like a hungry bird of prey over a vast stretch of vulnerable terrain.

"Starfighter," for one, a fearsome assemblage of miscellaneous parts with a terrifying needle nose, hovers like a hungry bird of prey over a vast stretch of Earth.

The success of conservation measures has seen large increases in the numbers of buzzards and other birds of prey over the last two decades.

"The Start of the Season," a short story first published in 1985, follows two hunters stalking their prey over quiet, folksy conversation, until it takes a jarring turn: the bait they are using is a recording of Vladimir S. Vysotsky, the singer worshipped by Russian intellectuals, which brings a man galloping through the woods.

You will follow the eventful life of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict whose decadeslong effort to reform himself and care for his adopted daughter is shadowed at every turn by the dogged Javert, prison warden turned police inspector, whose dedication to tracking down Valjean is exceeded only by his luck at bumping into his prey over and over across a wide swath of 19th-century French history.

Of particular interest is the spatial asymmetry introduced into the model as linearly declining resource for the prey over the domain of the spatial coordinate.

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Then something must have startled it, as it suddenly stared upwards, as if a bird of prey were flying over, and slowly sank under the water, as if wanting to be inconspicuous.

Competition for web-building spiders not only involves competition over prey, but also over suitable websites and possibly the web itself (Eichenberger et al., 2009).

About five million birds of prey pass over Cardel, Mexico, as they head south for the winter.

"A Polar wind blows through it," Melville might have written about it, if he had been a food writer, "and birds of prey hover over it".

How does a 30kg wild dog take down prey weighting over 270kg?

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