animal of prey
Example Sentences
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Instead of wise and confident, the man looked cold, commanding, intimidating, like some regal animal of prey.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
The wild-cat has short intestines and is an animal of prey; the tame cat has long intestines, and betrays her old character only now and then by cunning and slyness.
From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Bernstein, Aaron David
Man is by nature an animal of prey, educated by the complicated relations of society, but readily relapsing into his old habits.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
His attention was attracted to something high up in a neighbouring tree, that seemed restless, changing its position constantly like an animal of prey.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
His firm white teeth, as they crunched on the cracker suggested, even stronger, the semblance to a carnivorous animal of prey.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale
