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

No skulker had a chance of escape from his sharp eye, but, on the other hand, no hard-working servant was overlooked.

From Chasing the Sun by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

He stays his self-asked interrogatory, seeing that the skulker has paused too—at the farther end of the plank, which he has now reached.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne