Sentence examples for preyed off from inspiring English sources

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For decades, the GOP has preyed off the fears of white voters who are in economic distress.

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Preying off of fear, anger and division has taken a toll and damaged the spirit of the body politic.

Viral episodes like #PlaneBae demonstrate that the same sense of entitlement to private information is being actively passed onto the users these platforms prey on and feed off — and is then getting beamed out, like radiation, to harm the people around them.

Further, the removal of a male seems to have the advantage of decreasing prey off-take, but does not fundamentally shift ranging behaviour, even in the presence of a heterogeneous social influence.

The Kings' second group preyed on a Knicks slump and took off on a 20-6 run.

Anyone with an even perfunctory sense of right and wrong already knew that Roman Polanski was a despicable little toad who gets off on preying on young girls and gives himself a pass for it because he's an artist; one more accusation thrown into the mix isn't going to alter that perception, possibly not even in court.

It was made a self-governing province in 1887 only in an attempt to ward off preying foreign powers.

Greenpeace supporters, acting as "environmental commandos," chained themselves to cargoes of nuclear waste, sailed between Japanese and Soviet whaling ships and their prey, parachuted off smoky factory chimneys and dove into oceans, lakes and rivers to block underwater chemical discharge pipes.

Two families, the Eunicidae and Phyllodocidae, have evolved jaws, which can be used for seizing prey, biting off pieces of vegetation, or grasping dead and decaying matter.

The Rip-off: Car rental companies prey on provincial thinking.

Clearly, any animal that could get preyed upon is better off being alert, and even predators, when they're snoozing, are losing time that otherwise could be used searching for victims.

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