skulking
Example Sentences
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Still, even in a movie where people are always skulking around rifling through each other’s things, his claim that he chose a drunken late night to confront Maggie about plagiarism sounds inconceivable.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
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
Because “The Laughter” is not just any book from such a perspective — it’s a no-holds-barred comic achievement that lambastes the power structures keeping men like Oliver skulking the halls of academe.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 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
His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
