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

The Presence that had lurked in the shadows began to awaken in the Big-Head Mask.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer