The word 'preys' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning to hunt and kill animals for food, or to victimize someone or something. Example: The cat preys on small rodents in the garden.
Fresh corpses also appear in many British-made dramas and series, such as Silent Witness, Lewis, Whitechapel, Ripper Street, What Remains and The Fall, the BBC2 drama serial starring Gillian Anderson, in which a rapist and serial killer preys on a string of attractive young women.
Messrs Noland and Haggard note that as the state has thrust women into the market, "the increasingly male-dominated state preys on the increasingly female-dominated market".More than a century after Bird's visit, drudgery remains the lot of many of North Korea's women.
The question preys on the minds of Turks and Kurds alike, as violence escalates between Kurdish PKK rebels and the army in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish south-eastern provinces.
But the palaver reawakened angst at the International Olympic Committee's controversial decision prior to the 1998 Nagano Games to put the International Ski Federation FISS) in charge of Olympic snowboarding.Riders feel the FIS preys on their sport's youth appeal to rejuvenate its own stodgy image, but in fact gives them short shrift.
The girls claim they were trying to appease the Slender Man, a fictional bogeyman who preys on children.
On July 22nd the billionaire boss of Pershing Square, a hedge fund, delivered a three-hour presentation that he said would kill off the seller of nutritional shakes and foods by showing it to be a criminal enterprise that preys on the poor.
When it really wants to get tough, the Russian state preys on valuable companies in a way that would be inconceivable in America.
It grows to a length of 18 38 cm (7 15 inches), and it preys on spiders, worms, and termites.
In the southern part of its range, however, the Canada lynx's diet is more diversified: it preys on carrion and possibly even young ungulates.
It usually hunts alone and commonly feeds on birds and lemurs but also preys on livestock.
The beneficial Lebia grandis, which resembles the bombardier beetle, preys upon the Colorado potato beetle.
