prowls
Example Sentences
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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 • Feb. 24, 2026
In all of them, the camera prowls behind the characters, a seemingly objective witness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
“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
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
He snarled, “Panther prowls the jungle. Panther stalks his prey. He waits, he creeps—” Beans crept across the kitchen on tiptoe.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
