Sentence examples for prey to everything from inspiring English sources

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This is not a cost-effective solution, because when people are rough sleeping, prey to everything on the streets, in the end that costs us more as a society – in terms of physical and mental health and young people becoming involved in criminal activity, ending up in the criminal justice system, taking up substance abuse".

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Built around a 55-floor inner core in the 1970s as an exclusive high-rise condominium, it fell prey to urban degeneration and symbolised everything negative you have heard about the city.

Behind its savage ironies, Saramago seems to do no more than take the Incarnation as seriously as possible: if Jesus was born a man, he seems to say, then he inherits everything man is prey to, including sin, which comes from God anyway.

If you were a Marxist (and that would make you as rare, these days, as a blue guy with a tail), you might well claim, with a resigned shrug, that mutants would naturally, like everything else, be prey to commodification — that their otherness would become one more reality show, to be swallowed and churned in the capitalist gut.

He leaves the countryside for the Senegalese cities of Saint-Louis and Dakar but loses everything when he falls prey to the cities' wiles; he returns, in the end, to traditional ways of living.

As a somewhat jaded insurance-purchaser, I set out to learn everything I could to avoid falling prey to a policy that provides less-than-sufficient coverage.

Or to irritate many Europeans so casually on everything from the Kyoto protocol to jibes about "old Europe"?Mr Bush has fallen prey to a besetting fault of his administration.

"Let us not fall prey to rumors".

Collins is prey to a guilty secret.

Most of us fall prey to caricature.

I fall prey to whatever they have.

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