prowl
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Many of these wealthy buyers are on the prowl for vacation homes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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
From their back window, they saw grazing cattle, roaming antelope and coyotes on the prowl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
For him, the experience was similar to the feeling of waking up from a dream and wanting to go back so you can prowl around a little longer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Boots lay down, but, feeling excited, he stood up again and began to prowl, round and round in his narrow prison.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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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 prowls forward—like a lioness moving in for the kill.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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The author of the novel “We Never Called It Frisco” on stories of the artists and writers who prowled studios, bars and cafes in search of inspiration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Its waters supported giant turtles and crocodylians, while an extraordinary collection of hunters prowled the surrounding shores.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
A camera network that had been active when P-22 prowled Griffith Park was redeployed, and within a week photos were snapped of what officials said was the same lion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
Mary - who asked we not use her last name to protect her family's privacy - was one of the many women who sheltered in a store, horrified, as Cauchi prowled outside.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Following the tradition of the region, teens and older children prowled their neighborhoods.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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If agents are always prowling for reservations, human spontaneity will lose, and fewer people who have the good fortune of checking for a competitive seating at the right moment will get it.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
As for the red wolf, Mr. Moore writes that, in the 1930s in northeast Louisiana, a remnant tract of old-growth forest teemed with prowling panthers and massive alligators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Branch, widely projected to go in the second round of the NFL draft later this week, faces misdemeanor charges of obstructing public sidewalks, prowling and obstructing a law enforcement officer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
“Foreign correspondents and intelligence agents are probably prowling around near the Kremlin. It doesn’t pay to show that we’re nervous. Let them think we’re peacefully asleep in our beds.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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