skulk

Each of these resorts has an undersea restaurant, where travelers can sip sparkling wine and eat crab and caviar as Rainbowfish flit by, and Blacktip sharks skulk in the distance.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

You could skulk back to the Other Place.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

It’s a classic safari moment: A lion stands over a fresh carcass while hyenas skulk at the periphery, heads low.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024

“Go to the sixth floor” and these creepy guys would skulk in and look at your feet in the shoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

Scary creatures slither and skulk about; some scream constantly, while others have laughs so cold I can feel it in my bones.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Then Connor skulks in to query Mencken on the ambassadorship he was expecting.

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

Looking like a cross between Crispin Glover and PJ Harvey, the perpetually hunched-over, often furrow-browed Tito skulks around in fear with a red emergency whistle around his neck.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

On the other hand, once Sessions skulks back to Alabama, Kate McKinnon will have no further reason to play him on Saturday Night Live, which will probably be good for his reputation.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2018

Thersites skulks away, silenced, his Iliadic cameo at an end—but his long literary career as self-appointed flayer of heroic vanities is just beginning.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016

I push back my chair so suddenly that Boomer startles and skulks away upstairs.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Defector Brooks Koepka skulked back to the PGA Tour, accepting penalties for going astray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

They were MTV staples for grimy videos like “Breathe” and “Firestarter,” where the dual-mohawked singer/dancer Keith Flint skulked around an empty subway tunnel, sneering in kohl eyeliner and an American flag sweater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Unlike earlier generations of royals who skulked in and out of the hospital alone, Charles left his recent treatment with Camilla by his side, providing the support most people would expect from their spouses.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

On his first day, as he skulked around the corridors, trying to avoid being recognised, John Holmes, the head of security, walked straight past him.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2020

We skulked about in the banana-smelling darkness, examining the wall over the plank counter where Mother tacks up pictures she tears out of magazines.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

A few months before, Polumiskov said he had seen P-22 skulking through the same parking lot before running off.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024

The main way I die is at the hands of the simulated antagonist, who is skulking somewhere in the ductwork.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2023

The ending is a page turner as Wels describes Garfield’s last days alive, oblivious to Guiteau skulking in the shadows.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

“Something in the Dirt” is one of those weird little surprises sometimes found skulking in the crannies of mainstream film festivals, slippery and screwy and impossible to categorize.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

But then some creatures came skulking around who were not helpful at all.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown