lurk
verb (used without object)
to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
had lurked
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past perfectof lurk.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Corker had lurked around the Capitol all day but had not yet cast a ballot.
From Fox News ● Dec. 25, 2018
He showed us the danger areas where the Shape had lurked in that suburban haven: the stairs, the couch in the living room, the quiet street, the house where the story had been born.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2018
Dennett had lurked off to the side, stolid and silent, but he now launched into an argument about perspective.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
They had lurked beneath Olympic's greens for decades, their hunger for grass roots stifled by a chemical developed specifically to battle them.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 7, 2012
All that morning he had lurked behind his curtain of indifference and looked at things, snapping and glaring at whatever had tried to make him come out into the open.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
