Sentence examples for prey whole from inspiring English sources

The path stopped where the earth yawns and the river disappears in blackness, like a snake taking its prey whole.

A Big-Appetite Trick Snakes that eat by swallowing their prey whole have to choose their victims carefully.

They eat the prey whole and cough back, like owls, the indigestible parts, such as hair and hooves.

Owls may pull the meat off of large prey and leave the carcass, but they swallow small prey whole, bones and all.

That may be why barbeled dragonfishes have special head joints that allow them to open up their mouths 120 degrees and swallow big prey whole.

Snakes simply swallow their prey whole without any mechanical reduction, although the puncture wounds permit digestive enzymes to enter the prey to aid digestion.

And in the revolving door of corporatocracy and government, by the mid 1990s the bankers themselves had nailed jobs heading up the very institutions the Federal Reserve, the SEC, the Department of the Treasury mandated to enforce what few laws remained to keep the industry from preying whole-hog on the public.

Recall that since flies are the main arachnid prey, this whole show of silk and sunshine is powered by an often reviled group of insects.

Elasticity of the jaw would have allowed Carnotaurus to swallow small prey items whole.

The flame robin consumes small prey items whole, and bashes larger victims against a hard surface repeatedly to break up before eating.

The researchers also showed that Dakosaurus may have been the world's first "suction predator," with mechanisms for creating a pressure differential inside its enormous jaw that would have literally sucked prey in whole.