Sentence examples for that feed by from inspiring English sources

Some invertebrates that feed by filtering particles from water use cilia to create the necessary water currents.

Some insects advertise their presence to the other sex by flashing lights, and many imitate other insects in colour and form and thus avoid or minimize attack by predators that feed by day and find their prey visually, as do birds, lizards, and other insects.

Marx and colleagues noted that it looks most like tooth wear seen in other marine mammals that feed by sucking water and food through their teeth rather than biting at it.

Eccentrotheca's organophosphatic tube resembled that of phoronids, sessile animals that feed by lophophores and are regarded either very close relatives or a sub-group of brachiopods.

Filter feeders are molluscs that feed by straining suspended matter and food particle from water, typically by passing the water over their gills.

The solitary species, which are marine, live on other animals that feed by producing water currents, such as sponges, ectoprocts and sessile annelids.

These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds.

It is mainly a saprophyte that feeds by degrading cellulose and other dead plant matter.

We determined the complete genome sequence of Micavibrio aeruginosavorus ARL-13, an obligate bacterial predator that feeds by "leeching" externally to its prey.

A thunderstorm is essentially a tower of upward-moving winds that feed themselves by sucking in warm air from nearby.

Bite the Hand That Feeds You, by Henry Fairlie, edited by Jeremy McCarter (Yale; $30).