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prowl

verb as in move stealthily

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I found myself longing to learn more about Sophie’s callous roommate, her wealthy British boyfriend or Jesse’s sister, out on the prowl after divorcing her wife.

From Time

There’s yet another covid-19 variant on the prowl and it’s got scientists worried.

From Quartz

With hibernation approaching, many are on the prowl for calorie-rich foods that can help them build up fat and energy for a long winter’s snooze.

Cooke describes Joplin as being “always on the prowl and vocal about it.”

Owners prowl around wealthy suburbs announcing themselves as wealthy, carbon-free, early adopters with money to burn.

Is John Galliano on the prowl for redemption against his former employer, LVMH?

Who, when on the prowl at a bar, likes to say, “Oh, I work in the EOB”?

This was a fundraiser for the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., and they were on the prowl.

We'll be watched every minute of the time that we prowl around those painted rocks; that's a cinch.

These unkempt-looking Father Times and Methuselahs prowl about the staircases of the different ateliers daily.

He caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb.

These persons prowl about among the farms and villages begging for work in the name of charity.

Natives are not wont to prowl about after dark with no apparent object, especially alone.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prowl, such as: lurk, roam, scavenge, skulk, slink, and stroll.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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