Example Sentences

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So the first roar of the 2025 Lions has been heard - some old cats who have prowled this terrain before, some cubs who are experiencing this for the first time.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

Hoping to catch a flash of black and white, animal lovers have prowled the roadways and train tracks near Upper Marlboro where the trio was said to have been spotted.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

Thumb through the crime fiction canon, round up all the private detectives who have prowled the streets of Los Angeles — you could field a football squad.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2020

I have prowled through rooms of pottery and ironwork, never tiring of these quirky treasures.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2016

After the palmer perhaps there would have prowled a rather more sinister figure: one of those who “sleep by day and watch by night, eat well and drink well, but possess nothing.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White