skulk

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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

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

“Go to the sixth floor” and these creepy guys would skulk in and look at your feet in the shoes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

“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