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
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
Wealth managers prowl dental conferences for prospective clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Side by side, and walking as quietly as tomcats on the prowl, we moved on into monkey country.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
Les Amazones, for example, is a rhythmically playful workout for the strings; while Minotaure prowls around the orchestra with sinister, tremoring bass notes from the cellos and the brass.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
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
“The Witch prowls the woods on padded paws. She ate the heart of a sorrowing tiger long ago, and that heart still beats inside her.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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Its waters supported giant turtles and crocodylians, while an extraordinary collection of hunters prowled the surrounding shores.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Cervantes’s readers would have understood the references instantly: The wild cats once prowled the Spanish countryside in abundance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
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
While Peggy McClintick and wife Sally Tuchman slept, an unexpected visitor prowled in their Agoura Hills yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
He often prowled through junkyards touching old cars and buying old alternators and carburetors just for the joy of cleaning them up and making them work again.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
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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
Elaine Forbes, 53, was charged Tuesday with one count of prowling on private property, two counts of lodging without an owner’s consent and one count of petty theft, according to Marin County Superior Court records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The prowling bassline of National Anthem and the slamming drum loops of Idioteque, in particular, give the audience ample opportunity to jump up and down.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
As America entered World War II, New York City was threatened by prowling U-boats off the coast and Nazi spies lodged in Manhattan hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
When Grandpa and I got back to the buckboard, I said, “Grandpa, look at Rowdy. Something’s been prowling around here.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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