skulk
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton accused Findlay of deciding to "skulk at home".
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
You could skulk back to the Other Place.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
It’s a classic safari moment: A lion stands over a fresh carcass while hyenas skulk at the periphery, heads low.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 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
Like a skulk of foxes taking to its dens, the soldiers had retreated to their trenches: a few still digging, others working on equipment, still others talking together over charts.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
Then Connor skulks in to query Mencken on the ambassadorship he was expecting.
From Salon ● May 22, 2023
Trey skulks around Cal, alternately spying on him and helping him with the house, then hounds him into searching for the boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
The occasional car skulks by on the leafy street outside.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
On the other hand, once Sessions skulks back to Alabama, Kate McKinnon will have no further reason to play him on Saturday Night Live, which will probably be good for his reputation.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2018
A thin beak-nosed man who skulks outside the telegraph office, whittling little wooden boxes.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Defector Brooks Koepka skulked back to the PGA Tour, accepting penalties for going astray.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
He skulked over to the back of the room with his plate in a skit designed to highlight the absurdities of such a hierarchy today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2019
Whether Richard Parker skulked up in masterly tiger fashion before landing upon them in a thunder of roaring, or slouched by indifferently, it was all the same to them.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
“We think there’s an ICE agent,” someone told her, pointing toward an unmarked car skulking in the parking lot.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
It helped shift my attention to the supporting cast: Shioli Kutsuna and Aoi Yamada make a playful tag team as two slippery helpers skulking around the margins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
On the island, it is easy to imagine yokai skulking just beyond the eye’s reach.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 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
“I found glasses!” yelped one of the Snatchers skulking in the background.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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