skulk

So what if an NFL prospect turned LSU player has to skulk back to the Cleveland Browns?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton accused Findlay of deciding to "skulk at home".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025

You could skulk back to the Other Place.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

“It was your duty to bring her here into our care. Instead, you chose to skulk in a mountain cave—though how a woman of your intelligence hoped to remain hidden is a mystery to me.”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

Trey skulks around Cal, alternately spying on him and helping him with the house, then hounds him into searching for the boy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

Finally, the president of the United States skulks through the doors of Pudong International Airport, where tens of thousands of Chinese people are waiting for him.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2020

“Jordskott,” the latest moody Scandinavian thriller, with yet another stoic female police officer, skulks onto Shudder.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2017

He skulks out, hands tucked under his armpits.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

People skulked down the iron staircases and slipped out of shadowy elevators headed for the shops.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Still, even in a movie where people are always skulking around rifling through each other’s things, his claim that he chose a drunken late night to confront Maggie about plagiarism sounds inconceivable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

Alinejad told The Associated Press at the time that authorities told her the man was looking for her, and that a home security video had caught him skulking outside her front door.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

“I need you two as well!” he called to Ron and Hermione, who had been skulking, half concealed, in the doorway of the sitting room.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling