skulk
verb (used without object)
to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason.
will skulk
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future tenseof skulk.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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There he goes, slouching up the playground into the house, and he will skulk upstairs to his study and slam the door, and that’s all we shall see of Tom till suppertime.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
As the case now is they will always fall a sacrifice, while such low-lived scoundrels, that have neither Honour nor the Good of their Country at heart, will skulk behind and get off clear.
From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Johnston, Henry P.
If they have followed a hunter all night, and "treed" him, they will skulk away as soon as the sun rises.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
Make a man get into seedy, worn-out rags, and he will skulk along with his head hanging down, like a man going out to fetch his own supper beer.
From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Evil, injustice, bigotry, greed, and every vile and slimy thing that defiles and defames humanity will skulk into the dark, unable to bear the light of a juster, wiser, more merciful order.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
