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prowl

[praul] / praʊl /


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Many of these wealthy buyers are on the prowl for vacation homes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

But to define her solely as a feline, “forever on the prowl for her own kind of ‘mousing prospects,’” seems limiting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Singer Abigail Morris made full use of the stage to prowl around and lead the crowd into a wild sing-a-long to Nothing Matters.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Using the winger to go on the prowl is one of the small changes Laviolette plans to bring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Wait a minute. That’s Junior Palmer’s prowl car. He’s a deputy sheriff.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“We used to have multiple daily car prowls, and now, four of our five garages had no car prowls in the month of March,” Rivera said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

“Everyone could do it. I like that visual — instead of the enemy tempts you, it prowls around, like a roaring lion, looking to devour. That’s actually more realistic than, like, tapping on your shoulder.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

Les Amazones, for example, is a rhythmically playful workout for the strings; while Minotaure prowls around the orchestra with sinister, tremoring bass notes from the cellos and the brass.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023

A panther prowls through tract housing, a polar bear strolls near oil rigs, a bison stands in a parking lot and a wolf trots past an interior wall papered with renderings of trees.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

‘But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Its waters supported giant turtles and crocodylians, while an extraordinary collection of hunters prowled the surrounding shores.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Cervantes’s readers would have understood the references instantly: The wild cats once prowled the Spanish countryside in abundance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The performance was further heightened by the surprise appearance of tennis star Serena Williams, who performed the Crip Walk - a notorious Los Angeles dance move - as Lamar prowled the stage.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025

A camera network that had been active when P-22 prowled Griffith Park was redeployed, and within a week photos were snapped of what officials said was the same lion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

I stayed in the ruin, prowling where long-dead giants prowled, my heart aching to know what the strangers were doing now, up at the meadhall.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

If agents are always prowling for reservations, human spontaneity will lose, and fewer people who have the good fortune of checking for a competitive seating at the right moment will get it.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared on the night of January 31-February 1, with recovered security camera footage showing a masked and gloved person prowling outside her home in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Elaine Forbes, 53, was charged Tuesday with one count of prowling on private property, two counts of lodging without an owner’s consent and one count of petty theft, according to Marin County Superior Court records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Analysts say the products underpinning identity security will need to adapt as the number of bots and agents prowling networks surges in the next few years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Even though the cat gets my tongue when either Emily or Julie come prowling, Soojin never has any problem telling them exactly what she thinks.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan


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