Sentence examples for prey to something from inspiring English sources

The question that has puzzled economists is just why a supposedly clever species like Homo sapiens should fall prey to something so irrational.Now scientists may have provided an answer.

Having been so insistent on locking his characters in their time and world, Kingsnorth falls prey to something similar in The Wake as the book climaxes with the narrator poised to perform an atrocious ceremony.

Polls of the 1992 UK general election fell prey to something similar when they predicted the election would produce a narrow Labour majority.

He might be able to read the odd signpost or two, but Sgarbi's moral compass has fallen prey to the Bermuda Triangle effect – something all women wise up to sooner or later.

Email is prey to this bias: once something is there, it is natural to decide that it deserves our consideration, it is somehow our responsibility to read and respond.

Hall fell prey to the formula--if something bothers you, call it a mental health problem.

Do not fall prey to getting angry and saying something you will regret.

This hour-long trip into the dark forest of Teeuwen's imagination is likewise a sort of adult fairytale; it's one hell of an adventure, in which bizarre naivety may fall prey at any moment to something dangerous, lurking in the shadows.

In an age of plenty, we are all "prey to insufficiency" as there is always something we cannot afford.

I can't tell you what Barack said exactly, having fallen prey to B.O.D. — Barack Obama Dementia — but it had something to do with "aloha" and "future generations".

I am guessing, actually, that he has fallen prey to the surprisingly widespread myth that "massive" properly means only something with great mass, ie something very heavy.