Raptorial in a sentence as an adjective

Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc.

* Archaic whales first turned from raptorial into suction feeders, which then triggered tooth loss and, eventually, facilitated the emergence of baleen.

"Both types strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves.

Raptorial definitions

adjective

relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey"

adjective

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

See also: predatory rapacious ravening vulturine vulturous