How to Use skulk in a Sentence

skulk

verb
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  • All the while, Hank and Aron skulk like shoes just waiting to drop.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Breaks into Beck's house to skulk around and learn more about her.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2018
  • The hillsides weren’t yet in bloom, and fog skulked around the mountains in the distance, sloped and faded.
    — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • Osama bin Laden skulked in caves and a nondescript house in Pakistan.
    — The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • Smilodon, a saber-toothed cat around the size of today’s African lion, skulked across the grasslands in search of ground sloths and mammoths.
    — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
  • So, the best way to offer support and assistance is to let her skulk off and hide in a corner?
    — Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • Remember when The Dreamers came out, and skulking off to see it in theaters with your friends was the thing to do?
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 2 Jan. 2018
  • The spectral, life-size, menacing figures lurked and skulked and leapt.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The Dreamers' Remember when The Dreamers came out and skulking off to see it in theaters with your friends was the thing to do?
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The broadcaster obliged, was affable and didn't skulk through the gauntlet.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Jolie skulking in her childhood home is very Peyton Sawyer.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Moments later, the animal is seen skulking away down the street.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Last year, a clown was spotted skulking around a Chicago cemetery.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2016
  • The shorter brooding time probably reduces the embryo’s risk to predators skulking around to eat the eggs, such as shrimp.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Refinery 423, for one, stocks Hoff hot sauce, golf balls in an egg carton and messenger bags with the image of a skulking bear.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • While some drivers skulk away, others give you a hearty thumbs up, while still others will try to race you, mostly without success.
    — cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Call it a mixture of bravado and irrational confidence, but a great shooter is not skulking off the floor.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • For a time, Bitcoin was known as the currency of drug dealers and other bad actors skulking on the internet.
    — Nathaniel Popper and Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Polly's skulking around the Blossom mansion and comes upon a room with several shelves of wig stands, each holding a short, red wig.
    — Amy Watts, baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • All the while, that rascally rabbit is skulking around, watching and waiting for… something?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • The three children go to school, work at harvesting the fields and sometimes just skulk around like many children their age, avoiding anything serious.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In the clip, the entrepreneur is seen skulking around outside the grocery store at 5:24 a.m. before entering.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Presumably in Washington, skulking around the basement of the Capitol.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In the face of abundant evidence that the whistleblower remains engaged, Trump suggests the whistleblower has skulked away.
    — Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • But the Virginia-class submarine's claim to fame is its ability to hunt and destroy enemy vessels, both on the surface and skulking beneath the waves.
    — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The area has not had trouble with break-ins, Amat said, but this is not the first time the family’s home surveillance system has caught characters skulking around the property.
    — Joshua Sudock, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Product managers would skulk around Los Angeles parks, where they were routinely questioned by police, with their handheld units to try and find satellites.
    — Andrew Freeman, Outside Online, 21 May 2012
  • Harder to ignore are the creepy attentions of Lester (Clayton Hoff), who skulks around on the fringes of gatherings and leers at her through glasses with one lens mysteriously blackened.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Do any of these jokers have an inkling of how posterity will view this week’s videos of them skulking away from reporters in the Capitol’s corridors or making mealy-mouth statements while staring down at the floor?
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
  • In the distant past, wolves started skulking around human campsites, scavenging the carcasses left behind by hunters.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017

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