food chain
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.58 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.
noun
A hierarchy.
Example Sentences
- "Nanomaterials, substances broken down by technology into molecule-size particles, are starting to enter the food chain through well-known food products and their packaging, but there is little acknowledgment by the companies using them, according to a new report from a nonprofit group that works to enhance corporate accountability."
- "With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain."
- "He, too, was a meat puppet. Unable to make any decision without imagined repercussions from above, he chose to make none and instead passed his decision onto the next guy up the food chain."
- "At the top of the food chain is PJ's, whose pizza wins high accolades, and whose menu of fat sandwiches (a local delicacy that stuffs as many deep-fried items into a roll as possible) is extensive."
- "Finding realistic needle-moving signings is especially hard when clubs do not want to sell at this stage of a campaign, while you are eternally at the mercy of those with bigger teeth and sharper claws further up the food chain."