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

Four great northern grey wolves are skulking through the snow on the shore, and already their eyes are gleaming in triumph, and their mouths are watering for their prey.

From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.

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 Bompas, Cecil Henry

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 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)