prowls

Example Sentences

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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

My boy Octavian, having spent some days abed, never having traveled upon the water before, so that his vitals were involved in uproar, now prowls about the decks impatient of our destination.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson