prey
Example Sentences
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For another, many birds of prey have little to no sense of smell.
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Even if they did find prey, there’d be no time to make clothes.
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Suddenly the great prey burst upon him, galloping with their branched heads high and their huge hooves splayed, as they flowed between the beech trees like an unstoppable Fast Wet.
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Nothing would touch the prey of the bear.
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To the east all the way to the edge of the Deep Forest, lay the vast sunlit woods where the prey grow fat in autumn, and berries and nuts are plentiful.
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