prowl

Example Sentences

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That was his way of telling every living thing in those Cherokee bottoms to look out, for a mighty hunter and a bluetick hound were on the prowl.

From Literature

Pete, the rescue cat she got more than a decade ago and who she thinks is 16 years old, prowls in, quite at home in the apparent chaos.

From BBC

In 1925 he set off for Paris where, Ms. Albers writes, he helped pioneer a style of photography that eschewed working in a studio in favor of “prowling the city” for snapshots.

From The Wall Street Journal

They prowled around them, seemingly uninterested in the adult humans—their eyes were on Christopher and Mal.

From Literature

I jump up from the bed, prowling the room.

From Literature