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prowl

verb as in move stealthily

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Maria Fuertes, 43, and her daughter had prowled the area for more than seven hours, since 9 a.m., shopping for outfits for a December wedding.

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The prowling bassline of National Anthem and the slamming drum loops of Idioteque, in particular, give the audience ample opportunity to jump up and down.

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Even as their nemesis prowled the nursery, the Horrible Incorrigibles whined, punched, dueled, and pirouetted all the way to the bakehouse.

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The drivers prowled the sidewalk, angling for customers.

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“Foreign correspondents and intelligence agents are probably prowling around near the Kremlin. It doesn’t pay to show that we’re nervous. Let them think we’re peacefully asleep in our beds.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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