(a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
(a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
(a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Example Sentences:
(1) When estrus was terminated with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), predatory behavior did not further regress as it did in control runs.
(2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(3) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(4) The introduction of Zonitoides nitidus -- predatory snail -- without vegetation modification produces a progressive elimination of Lymnaea in 3 years.
(5) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
(6) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(7) It is concluded that predatory behavior is based on specific mechanisms separate from both alimentary and instrumental ones.
(8) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(9) Once the story of a predatory homosexual was presented in court, Carr became a victim and the murder was framed as an honour killing.
(10) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(11) There is no independent proof that Kammerer was a predatory stalker; there is only Carr's word for the pursuit from St Louis to New York; there is persuasive evidence that Kammerer was not gay.
(12) Google's provision of its Android operating system for free is anti-competitive "predatory pricing", according to a complaint filed with European regulators by Fairsearch Europe, a group whose members include bitter rival Microsoft .
(13) The third experiment revealed that LiCl injections did not influence either maternal aggression or locust killing in naive females and predatory aggression in experienced-killer females.
(14) However, predatory attack on insect larvae was unaltered by any dose of the compound.
(15) He is hostile to the centralised state as well as predatory capitalism, concerned about rising levels of mental illness and worried about the widening income gap.
(16) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(17) They do so by accommodating predatory tax practices, in response to opportunities provided by countries like the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
(18) These findings clearly indicate that amphetamine reactivity is influenced by prior exposure to a predator, the presence of predatory odors during testing, and the subject's sex.
(19) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(20) The attorney general claimed the bank knew the trader engaged in predatory behaviour.
Raptor
Definition:
(n.) A ravisher; a plunderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) M. raptor appeared to be more effective than U. rufipes in parasitizing pupae located at sites where natural fly-breeding occurred.
(2) The domestic chicken is precocial at hatching whereas most raptors are semi-altricial.
(3) Five incidences of bird mortality in Georgia and West Virginia (USA) involving migratory waterfowl, cranes, raptors, corvids and songbirds were investigated during the first 6 mo of 1988.
(4) M. raptor, which was released inside the barn, parasitized fly pupae both inside and outside, and it achieved highest rates of parasitism in indoor straw calf-bedding and in outdoor manure and silage.
(5) Variation observed at one o of the sex-linked fragments in peregrines has proven to be useful in distinguishing a subset of the tundrius subspecies of this endangered raptor.
(6) The Toronto Raptors, who definitely deserve an All-Star considering their out-of-nowhere success, might have been better off being represented by Kyle Lowry .
(7) The tightly encased raptor eye, with its anteriorly placed scleral ossicles, may have rendered the eye more susceptible to contrecoup damage.
(8) However the ipsilateral contingent was proportionally larger in the nocturnal raptor.
(9) A combination of ketamine HCl and diazepam given intravenously was successfully utilized to induce anesthesia for various surgical procedures in 40 raptors.
(10) Blood culture of 142 raptors of 11 species for Trypanosoma revealed a prevalence of 41.5%.
(11) Since 2000, 20 gamekeepers have been found guilty of “raptor persecution” or poisoning offences on grouse moorland, including one who killed a hen harrier in Scotland.
(12) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(13) Gram-negative bacteria, which were cultured from the feces of 45 of the 47 raptors, were the most common isolates.
(14) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(15) He talks of forging a relationship with his posse of raptors, rather than trying to control them.
(16) Not only is every team in the Atlantic Division currently under .500, they have gone winless against teams outside their division since the Toronto Raptors' Sunday night victory over the Los Angeles Lakers .
(17) The Decision , as the ESPN program was called, created a NBA superteam of sorts as James "took his talents to South Beach" to join hometown hero Dwyane Wade and the Toronto Raptors All-Star Chris Bosh.
(18) Ray plotting through traced foveal outlines suggests that sharp images will be formed beneath the centre and shoulders, with the centre image enlarged enough to account for the high acuity of raptors.
(19) "To do one DP (designated player) is a smart move, to do two DP's is not the smartest thing ever done and to do three is financial suicide," said Leiweke, whose sporting portfolio also includes the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and NBA's Raptors.
(20) Other things we've learned • While the headline coming into Sunday night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Toronto Raptors was the return of Kobe Bryant, the highlight of the night was provided by the man known as Swaggy P : Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yes Nick Young, had the play of the game.