skulker

Example Sentences

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Serkis soars as Sméagol sinks, and if the next two Hobbit films hold hope, it is that this Peter Lorre-esque skulker will get more chances to work his evil magic.

From Time • Dec. 5, 2012

Gradually he connected the skulker in the third row with the occasional byline above movie reviews.

From Time • Jun. 21, 2012

The question of relief corruption, long a skulker in the flickering outskirts of national politics, suddenly leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truth is, that John Douglas, or Captain Douglas, as the neighbours called him with a kind of grudging respect, was a skulker from the battle of humanity.

From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William

He did not personally know that the summer-house was occupied, but he argued it from the movements of the other skulker.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville