How to Use prey on/upon in a Sentence

prey on/upon

phrasal verb

• They’ve been known to scale or dig beneath fences to prey on pets.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• But the curse of the castle continues to prey on his mind.
  — EW.com, 8 July 2024
• On land, birds, crabs, and small mammals prey on eggs and hatchlings.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• This is due to that area's seal population, which the sharks prey on.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 30 June 2022
• Wolves kill some livestock and hunting dogs each year as well as prey on deer and elk.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Live birds of prey on display during the breakfast hours.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2024
• This suggests the attack was devised to prey on users in Europe and Asia.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025
• Tiger sharks are one of the most fierce species in its genus, measure about 15 feet long and often prey on turtles.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
• The case leads them down a rabbit hole where rich predators prey on the innocent.
  — Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
• This helps the nighttime hunters prey on rodents scurrying on the ground.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
• Under these circumstances, killer whales have been known to hunt and prey on moose.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• Other big cats and eagles are known to prey on cheetahs.
  — Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
• Instead, these poisonous toads proved deadly to the native species that tried to prey on them.
  — Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
• And vulnerable minds and hearts and bodies are easy to prey on.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• During their journey, terns must watch out for raptors and gulls that might prey on them.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• At Shedd, the eels are well-fed and have no need to prey upon the others living in their exhibit.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• These scams prey on people with tax debt, offering false hope for a quick fix.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2024
• The king of the dinosaurs may have not been the only Cretaceous carnivore to prey on its own kin.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
• How do Burmese pythons eat? Burmese pythons prey on mammals, birds and other reptiles.
  — Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• That’s because there are so many animals that prey on smolts.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• As the dead awaken and prey on the living, a group of people take shelter at a farmhouse and try to survive a very dark night.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2022
• High transaction fees add to worries that they can be used to prey on poor people.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• Of the species humans prey on, almost 40 percent are threatened.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Coyotes are known to prey on very small and young dogs, so keep those leashed, especially at night.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2025
• With a playful touch and a light choke, her work turns traditional notions of hunter and prey on their head.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• These arthropods are more likely to prey on ticks when they are fully engorged with blood.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• There is no reason this person should ever be set free again to prey on others.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Rats, pigs, dogs and ants prey on tortoise eggs and hatchlings in the wild, while donkeys, goats, cattle and invasive plants disrupt their habitat.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
• Quolls, in turn, prey on the toads—but often lose their lives in the process because of a toxin that the toads carry on their skin, pushing the little marsupial to the edge of extinction.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025