Example Sentences

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Although driverless cars have been prowling San Francisco streets for years, to date they’ve either been staffed with human safety drivers or, if fully driverless, occupied by company employees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

But within a month I’d read two novels and listened to an audio book – all in the free time when I’d otherwise have been prowling around social apps looking for validation.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2017

Soviet agents have been prowling naval bases like Toulon, on the Mediterranean, which houses two carriers and the nuclear submarine Rubis.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been prowling around in a valley of dry bones, and to save my soul I cannot find my way out.

From The Daughter of a Republican by Babcock, Bernie

Our soldiers would not do such a thing, so it must have been prowling people—thieves—who stripped off your 25clothes.

From Where the Path Breaks by Créspigny, Charles de