skulk
verb (used without object)
to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason.
are skulking
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present progressiveof skulk.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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By now, dentists know by the look of them which patients are skulking in to get their first visit since the start of the pandemic over with.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2013
“But ought we not to watch them, and insist on their telling us why they are skulking in this place?” asked Crawford.
From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston
I know all about it: You are digging the earth and throwing the earth away: I know all about it: you are skulking there scraping a hole.”
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas
Merchants, who once kept ten or fifteen clerks, have now but two or three; thousands of half-starved discharged clerks are skulking about the streets.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
