Sentence examples for were preyed from inspiring English sources
verb
To act as a predator.
The investigators found that the eggs near broken shells were preyed upon sooner than the isolated, less conspicuous eggs.
If rivals stumble or fail, that may be down to their own inefficiency or poor products, and not because they were preyed upon.
But long before Mr. Kony, people in northern Uganda were preyed upon — by the armies of King Leopold of Belgium, the dictator Idi Amin, and later Ugandan governments.
"We find it troubling that this very close election could be decided by institutionalized patients who were preyed upon by overzealous Democratic operatives," said Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the Zimmer campaign.
Throughout the decades of denial, the young men who were preyed upon by paedophiles in the county, both inside and outside the church, had one champion – a retired police detective, Martin Ridge.
Two of these species, M. modiolus and T. cincinnatus, were preyed upon by scavenging demersal fish.
Mayfly nymphs are preyed upon by carnivorous invertebrates and fishes.
Other abandoned plants are being preyed upon by thieves.
They worried about being preyed upon by parasites and entourages.
I was being preyed upon".
