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
She regarded him as a second-rate animal of prey, like a jackal, and always shrank when he was near.
From The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood
She had recently dropped her calf, and he at once conjectured that it had been attacked, and perhaps killed, by some animal of prey.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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 Eustace Hale Ball
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
