skulking

Example Sentences

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Still, even in a movie where people are always skulking around rifling through each other’s things, his claim that he chose a drunken late night to confront Maggie about plagiarism sounds inconceivable.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

The main way I die is at the hands of the simulated antagonist, who is skulking somewhere in the ductwork.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2023

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

“Something in the Dirt” is one of those weird little surprises sometimes found skulking in the crannies of mainstream film festivals, slippery and screwy and impossible to categorize.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

The dragons were no larger than the scrawny cats she had once seen skulking along the walls of Magister II- lyrio's estate in Pentos . . . until they unfolded their wings.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin