skulk

Now they’re being told to skulk back to their old, haunted past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

You could skulk back to the Other Place.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

She has to do her work at night and skulk around in the darkness.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2023

“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

The memory tried to skulk into my head, but with Anna May beside me, I easily pushed it out.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Then Connor skulks in to query Mencken on the ambassadorship he was expecting.

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

Trey skulks around Cal, alternately spying on him and helping him with the house, then hounds him into searching for the boy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

Looking like a cross between Crispin Glover and PJ Harvey, the perpetually hunched-over, often furrow-browed Tito skulks around in fear with a red emergency whistle around his neck.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

Finally, the president of the United States skulks through the doors of Pudong International Airport, where tens of thousands of Chinese people are waiting for him.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2020

A thin beak-nosed man who skulks outside the telegraph office, whittling little wooden boxes.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Defector Brooks Koepka skulked back to the PGA Tour, accepting penalties for going astray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Unlike earlier generations of royals who skulked in and out of the hospital alone, Charles left his recent treatment with Camilla by his side, providing the support most people would expect from their spouses.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

At Other, though, I skulked, soaking up the sounds but keeping resolutely shtum, staying for ages then leaving with just freesheets and flyers, usually.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2020

He skulked over to the back of the room with his plate in a skit designed to highlight the absurdities of such a hierarchy today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2019

The squid had apparently skulked back into its cave.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

“We think there’s an ICE agent,” someone told her, pointing toward an unmarked car skulking in the parking lot.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Three Herbert scrambles and an incomplete pass later, and the Chargers were skulking off the field pointless, and the Patriots had a huge emotional lift.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

The ending is a page turner as Wels describes Garfield’s last days alive, oblivious to Guiteau skulking in the shadows.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

There is the brightly lit, well populated world of the office, and then there is the skulking realm of a woman called Itchy, dimly lit with just a single hanging lamp.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

At an inn one night, I suspected a skulking, one-eyed man of having designs upon my purse.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein