Sentence examples for prey tightly from inspiring English sources

Once prey had been seized in the jaws, the heavily muscled forelimbs may have retracted, holding the prey tightly against the body and preventing escape.

When its prey is tightly-bound, it sucks the hapless spider dry, a true eight-legged David v Goliath contest.

It's not that Americans are peculiarly fond of judges who treat the Constitution like a boa constrictor treats its prey, squeezing it so tightly the life drains out of our framing document.

The species name amplectus, which comes from Latin, means "embracing" and refers to the creature's flexibility and presumed ability to wrap tightly around its prey.

But our immune system benefits from genetic typos, which help create a wide variety of antibodies that cling tightly to their "prey," maximizing the chances that some will be effective.

In addition, vegetation in patches, such as bushes or trees, may constrain turn radii, precluding small prey from perhaps turning as tightly as they might, to the advantage of the predator while, conversely, such features may allow prey to execute a turn without giving the predator the option of cutting the corner.

Each leaf can possess thousands of tentacles, which can aid in the retention of larger prey when combined with the leaf wrapping tightly around captured insects.

The front legs, when specialized for grasping prey, have tibia and tarsus adapted to fold tightly against a thickened femur.

It crouched there, a tightly wound spring scanning the horizon for prey, all lean muscle, tense sinews against the roiling clouds.

Using HIV-1 IN as a bait and a yeast genomic library as the source of inhibitory peptides (prey), we isolated a 33-mer peptide (I33) that bound tightly to the enzyme.

Because a generalist predator is able to adapt its diet and exploit different prey types, the dynamics of generalist predators are not necessarily tightly coupled to those of any one of their prey [20] and it is likely that the numerical response of predator populations will, like the functional response, be driven by the availability of more than one type of prey.