skulk

Now they’re being told to skulk back to their old, haunted past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Each of these resorts has an undersea restaurant, where travelers can sip sparkling wine and eat crab and caviar as Rainbowfish flit by, and Blacktip sharks skulk in the distance.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

You could skulk back to the Other Place.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

“If they’re gonna be engaged in skullduggery, you need someone that they’ve got to skulk around,” Schaffer says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

“It was your duty to bring her here into our care. Instead, you chose to skulk in a mountain cave—though how a woman of your intelligence hoped to remain hidden is a mystery to me.”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Then Connor skulks in to query Mencken on the ambassadorship he was expecting.

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

The lens skulks like a voyeur and does what it can to frazzle us, too.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2022

Finally, the president of the United States skulks through the doors of Pudong International Airport, where tens of thousands of Chinese people are waiting for him.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2020

Thersites skulks away, silenced, his Iliadic cameo at an end—but his long literary career as self-appointed flayer of heroic vanities is just beginning.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016

I push back my chair so suddenly that Boomer startles and skulks away upstairs.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Defector Brooks Koepka skulked back to the PGA Tour, accepting penalties for going astray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

They were MTV staples for grimy videos like “Breathe” and “Firestarter,” where the dual-mohawked singer/dancer Keith Flint skulked around an empty subway tunnel, sneering in kohl eyeliner and an American flag sweater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Unlike earlier generations of royals who skulked in and out of the hospital alone, Charles left his recent treatment with Camilla by his side, providing the support most people would expect from their spouses.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

At Other, though, I skulked, soaking up the sounds but keeping resolutely shtum, staying for ages then leaving with just freesheets and flyers, usually.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2020

They skulked in an empty chamber off the entrance hall, listening, until they were sure it was deserted.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

A few months before, Polumiskov said he had seen P-22 skulking through the same parking lot before running off.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024

The main way I die is at the hands of the simulated antagonist, who is skulking somewhere in the ductwork.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2023

The ending is a page turner as Wels describes Garfield’s last days alive, oblivious to Guiteau skulking in the shadows.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

Without looking too hard we spotted white-tailed deer behind the trees, bright red cardinals flitting about and even a gray fox skulking by.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

Probably Gawaine or his men would be skulking at his heels, in case for a moment he should lay the talisman aside.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White