stalk

Example Sentences

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This work requires stealth and sleepless nights to stalk poachers in the dark.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

As the growing season progresses, the plant puffs itself into a roughly spherical shape, until the first frosts, when it snaps off its stalk and waits to be blown across the landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

With the names of his children, Betty and George, etched on his shorts, Allen started to stalk Makhmudov, with a massive body shot followed by a right uppercut landing in the fifth round.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

The chimp she later named David Graybeard had been using the stalk to fish for the bugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

They had to stalk her, one on each side of the garden, and Nat finally dived full length under a bush, dragged the cat out, and wrapped it tightly in his own shirt.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare