Example Sentences

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Then Connor skulks in to query Mencken on the ambassadorship he was expecting.

From Salon • May 22, 2023

Note the hangdog way in which he skulks out of the Roc-A-Fella Records office after going door to door and playing music for various executives, who seem to regard him as a lovable nuisance.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Trey skulks around Cal, alternately spying on him and helping him with the house, then hounds him into searching for the boy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2020

Finally, the president of the United States skulks through the doors of Pudong International Airport, where tens of thousands of Chinese people are waiting for him.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2020

I push back my chair so suddenly that Boomer startles and skulks away upstairs.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish