(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.
Talon
Definition:
(n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
(n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
(n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
(n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
Example Sentences:
(1) It angled and twisted, talons probing down on a swallow.
(2) When Adele recently collected her Grammys with long talons painted on both sides (pale on top, pillar box red beneath), it seemed even nail art had gone truly mainstream.
(3) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
(4) Talon for Twitter (£1.21) Looking for an alternative to the official Twitter app for Android?
(5) What was first diagnosed as an endodontic lesion was, in all probability, a primary periodontal lesion caused by the advance of bacteria from the gingival crevice to the apex along the radicular groove between the main tooth and the talon cusp.
(6) However, the unique feature of the TALON Catalog may be its machine-readable form which offers the potential for quantitative analyses of health sciences library collections.
(7) In that 42 tonnes of bait in the proposed eradication program, there will actually be less than 1kg – 840g – of brodifacoum, a poison in common pesticides like Talon which is found in most supermarkets.
(8) The beak made from what looked to be a bear claw, the feet with their worn-down, pedestrian talons: I mean, please!
(9) #Pistorius May 8, 2014 Wolmarans says the ammunition used was not Black Talon bullets , as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
(10) Plath was killed by what she described as "the owl's talons clenching and constricting my heart".
(11) Only recently have reports of talon cusps on primary teeth appeared.
(12) The methods of treatment of talon cusps are reviewed.
(13) Day 28: 8 May 2014 Ballistics expert Thomas ‘Wollie’ Wolmarans, told the court that the ammunition used to shoot Steenkamp was not Black Talon bullets, as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
(14) The prevalence of talon cusp was found to be 0.6 per 1000, and for ankyloglossia 8.3 per 1000.
(15) I spoke to Avery the day after he had travelled to Margate to admire Jeremy Deller’s painting of an enormous hen harrier grabbing a Range Rover in its talons, which Avery saw as a powerful statement about class-based power still defining what lived and died in the British countryside.
(16) Clinical observations suggest that the incidence of talon cusps in the primary dentition may be not lower than that in the permanent dentition in Chinese children.
(17) He noted the Black Talon brand of ammunition was often used for self-defence because while it caused significant damage to a human target, it was less likely to penetrate the first target and hit other people.
(18) Captain Mangena, the state ballistic expert, maintains the bullets were Black Talons .
(19) CCI's Blazer JSP bullet (developed in conjunction with the UK distributor, Edgar Brothers) is "specifically designed for bone penetration in head shots and to create maximum expansion inside the cranium without exiting"; and then there is Winchester's Black Talon.
(20) An unusual example of anterior tooth fusion is presented in which the involved tooth had one crown, one talon cusp, two roots, and three root canals.