prowl

Many of these wealthy buyers are on the prowl for vacation homes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Singer Abigail Morris made full use of the stage to prowl around and lead the crowd into a wild sing-a-long to Nothing Matters.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Her “ideal day” is to go to the Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, “visit” the cat who sits on the register and prowl the aisles until she finds three books to bring home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

Around seven-thirty, dressed and slicked up, I stuck my head outside my door to see if either of the Yoshotos were on the prowl.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Pete, the rescue cat she got more than a decade ago and who she thinks is 16 years old, prowls in, quite at home in the apparent chaos.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

In all of them, the camera prowls behind the characters, a seemingly objective witness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

“We used to have multiple daily car prowls, and now, four of our five garages had no car prowls in the month of March,” Rivera said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

A panther prowls through tract housing, a polar bear strolls near oil rigs, a bison stands in a parking lot and a wolf trots past an interior wall papered with renderings of trees.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

She growls and prowls toward a corner where a little rat squeaks wildly.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

“Let’s get to work. Operators, to your battle stations,” instructed Maliuk as he prowled the room, according to video footage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Williams, a Compton kid like Kendrick, performed the Crip Walk - a notorious Los Angeles dance move - as the headliner prowled the stage.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025

Smko prowled the stage to some spiky Shostakovich music, displaying an uncanny mix of intensity and naturalness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Actors materialized on balconies overhead and prowled the aisles between seats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

When his daughter was miserable she prowled, and Atticus liked his women to be relaxed, not constantly emptying ashtrays.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared on the night of January 31-February 1, with recovered security camera footage showing a masked and gloved person prowling outside her home in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Nor is it the way they never concerned themselves with prowling the stage or donning anything other than sensible blazers and jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Mick Cronin just seems to be angry all the time prowling the sidelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

He’s been in the U.S. barely 24 hours since landing from a workout-filled vacation on the Croatian island of Krk, and he’s not jet-lagged, puffy or prowling for a Cinnabon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025

He called Thomas At-the-Bridge, who knew the ways of the woods and the tracks of the animals, to help him discover what sort of beast had been prowling about while they slept.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman