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Definition of beast of prey in English: beast of preynoun An animal, especially a mammal, that kills and eats other animals. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps it would have made sense to allow the private sector to have these so called ‘windfalls’, much as one throws a carcass to a hungry marauding beast of prey.
- The trapper did not see the form of a white beast of prey calling his growling message to the glow of the moon; he only saw a white figure bowing and baying out an inviting call.
- ‘Largely my life has been spent in protecting these flocks against the incursions of ravenous beasts of prey,’ he explained.
- If we give our world a good look, he claimed, we will see ‘refined beasts of prey run, and we [ourselves] run [ning] in their midst.’
- He comes in this role, says Nietzsche, ‘to represent practically a new type of the beast of prey,’ one who is ‘venerable, wise, cold, full of treacherous superiority’.
- Evidently, we have a powerful desire to portray fearsome beasts of prey as rulers of prehistoric nature.
- Alekhine once commented that the chess master should be a combination of a beast of prey and an ascetic monk.
- Once flourishing human settlements in the countryside had turned into jungles and had become haunts of wild beasts of prey.
- In the vision of this chapter, Daniel sees the successive empires of this world as nothing more than grotesque beasts of prey that devour each other.
- Some argue that predatory market forces make it impossible for benevolent governments to shield their populations from the beasts of prey that lurk beyond their borders.
- Apparently, those who approved the ad were not familiar with Emerson's 1847 journal entry: ‘I feel, meantime, that those who succeed in life, in civilized society, are beasts of prey.’
- Nonetheless, the White House sought to portray a toothless tabby-cat as a savage beast of prey.
- Hence killing is portrayed as a means of survival, making the hunter the biggest beast of prey in the forest.
Definition of beast of prey in US English: beast of preynoun An animal, especially a mammal, that kills and eats other animals. Example sentencesExamples - Hence killing is portrayed as a means of survival, making the hunter the biggest beast of prey in the forest.
- Perhaps it would have made sense to allow the private sector to have these so called ‘windfalls’, much as one throws a carcass to a hungry marauding beast of prey.
- Some argue that predatory market forces make it impossible for benevolent governments to shield their populations from the beasts of prey that lurk beyond their borders.
- In the vision of this chapter, Daniel sees the successive empires of this world as nothing more than grotesque beasts of prey that devour each other.
- He comes in this role, says Nietzsche, ‘to represent practically a new type of the beast of prey,’ one who is ‘venerable, wise, cold, full of treacherous superiority’.
- Apparently, those who approved the ad were not familiar with Emerson's 1847 journal entry: ‘I feel, meantime, that those who succeed in life, in civilized society, are beasts of prey.’
- Alekhine once commented that the chess master should be a combination of a beast of prey and an ascetic monk.
- The trapper did not see the form of a white beast of prey calling his growling message to the glow of the moon; he only saw a white figure bowing and baying out an inviting call.
- Evidently, we have a powerful desire to portray fearsome beasts of prey as rulers of prehistoric nature.
- ‘Largely my life has been spent in protecting these flocks against the incursions of ravenous beasts of prey,’ he explained.
- Nonetheless, the White House sought to portray a toothless tabby-cat as a savage beast of prey.
- If we give our world a good look, he claimed, we will see ‘refined beasts of prey run, and we [ourselves] run [ning] in their midst.’
- Once flourishing human settlements in the countryside had turned into jungles and had become haunts of wild beasts of prey.
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