prowls

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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

Diaz acknowledged the shift will mean it will take longer to investigate property crimes like car prowls and burglaries and cases will need to be triaged.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

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

‘But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien