How To Use Skulk In A Sentence
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Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
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Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
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He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker.
Israel Potter
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Instead of lining up at feeders like proper birds, they lurk in the treetops and skulk in the brush.
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In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
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Frenchman, who skulked so that I made sure of him, and not a blessed anker of foreign brandy, nor even a forty-pound bag of tea.
Mary Anerley
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To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with.
Books in the Mail (W/E 8/30/2008)
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Daum skulked away to be replaced by Rudi Voeller, who had barely sat down before he was off to be national coach.
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The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective.
Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
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How can you skulk mysteriously when you're goggling at the camera?
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The only answer is to stay away, to skulk at home with the door locked, then complain about democratic illegitimacy later.
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After I dropped them off, I took a ride. I saw 2 jackals skulking up the road and an unidentified fox crossed in front of me.
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Vampyre umbral skulker until sunlight dwindles then bat becomes nocturnal prince throat ravager, claret quaffer, night wraith fearless charlatan, blood drunkard but at dawn's flushing kiss he yields to light
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Across the road I noticed some youths skulking around.
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And I prefer to go forth and meet my destiny, not skulk at home in hiding waiting for fate to overtake me.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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The bird is a notorious skulker, tending to show itself only momentarily, and is as difficult to see well as a nightingale.
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You want some weirdo skulking around the aisles, spraying toxic chemicals all over the place?
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John was one day lying under a bush in the scrog, when he was aware of a collie on the far hillside skulking down through the deepest of the heather with obtrusive stealth.
Memories and Portraits
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They hugged table-legs, raced up walls, skulked under shelves and stood shivering in nooks and corners.
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A traffic warden is skulking around and has just stuck a ticket on the car next to me.
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I would skulk in alleys and hide in closets and tap phone lines.
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But in the darkness of the park we make out a dozen hooded figures skulking in a children's play area.
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His first song was played on his knees, pulling the mic down as if he were skulking in the corner of the room, wanting to play, but not make a drama out of it.
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Though they are skulkers, they ‘sing’ in a constant chatter or mew, sounding rather like a cat, alerting one to their presence.
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Up an unpromising staircase, the door opens into a small and perfectly-formed space, dominated by a long counter behind which skulks a spotty girl.
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The European lynx (_felis lynx_), and the wild cat, both skulk through the Pyrenean forests; the former now only rarely seen.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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Learn more about the word "skulk" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.
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She spent some time skulking off behind barns for a smoke: ‘Yeah, and nicking fags off Dad.’
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Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults.
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They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.”
George Washington’s First War
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Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga.
The Thorn Birds
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The others head for the restrooms or skulk to the vending machines for a resupply of chips and Dew.
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Androgynous models with enviable cheekbones skulked down the catwalk in bulky, tie-waisted trenches in lacquered microfiber or wrinkly microfiber with stiff, standup necklines and drop-crotched harem pants.
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In his daily excursions to the bird's-eye rollway he never took the same route twice, but skulked, peering fearfully about in the underbrush, avoiding even the game trails.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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At this point, the guard, who had been skulking around listening to our conversation, decided to stick his oar in.
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You only had to look at the coach skulking up and down the touchline throughout the second half to see that.
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All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.
Walden
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She still needed to move quietly, but she no longer needed to skulk.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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If a man can possibly avoid it, let him never go to the hospital: for he will be called a "skulker," or
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
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The lonely man skulks down the main street all day
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I felt the bile come up in my throat with fear - but I was armed, wasn't I, and he probably wasn't, and I'd been a pretty useful night-skulker in my time, too.
Watershed
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Mantis shrimp skulked liked cats under the jetty, one feasting on a juvenile pufferfish that had strayed too close to its spearing claws.
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Though he's chained up with other "lycan" slaves, werewolf messiah Lucian (Michael Sheen) pursues a love that dare not howl its name with vampire princess Sonja (Rhona Mitra), while her aristocratic dad, Viktor (Bill Nighy), skulks around like a Balkan Ming the Merciless.
NashvilleScene.com
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There was always gossip at the water cooler about what office people wouldn't change the water cooler when it was empty—horrible people who would pretend not to notice and skulk away, like they'd just doored a Benz in the parking lot.
Water Cooler Topics Are Overflowing
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White "and a shitepoke, skulking along the river bank, stopped and cried," Cowk, cowk!
The Harvester
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There are still some stragglers awaiting relocation, skulking up there on the top shelf trying to avoid detection.
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_slive_ ( "I see that _shack a-_sliving_ and a_-skulking about"), and
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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The only element Kurtzman adds to shape the events is drama, which serves to tease out the absurdity skulking just below the romantic surface.
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Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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I'm too busy taking photos of myself, skulking around NZD, and considering how names like Aethelbald are parental cruelty.
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Close relatives of the grasshopper warbler, lanceolated warblers are just as skulking and hard to see.
A Year on the Wing
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals
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When a local "skulker" is killed, all the old fears are reawakened.
From Inside the Box
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Long gone are the days when people were forced to skulk in the sexual shadows on account of their lifelong splosh fetish.
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She still needed to move quietly, but she no longer needed to skulk.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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They spent the next three weeks in what Betty called the “never-never land” of secret OSS training schools, a series of safe houses scattered all over the Virginia area where they were taught how to make false documents, skulk around corners while following people, arrange secret meetings, and question suspects.
A Covert Affair
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Simultaneously, from the farther corner, another pedestrian debouched, into the thoroughfare -- a mere moving shadow at that distance, brother to blacker shadows that skulked in the fenced areas and unlively entries of that poorly lighted block.
The Black Bag
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There were scores of them yesterday, hanging around on the steps beside the takeaway, skulking outside Bow Church gates and lurking on the traffic island by the disused public conveniences.
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Harry saw Fenrir, skulking, chewing his long nails; the great blond Rowle was dabbing at his bleeding lip.
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I had a week at most at my disposal, so for three or four nights I set off stealthily after dark, dressed in an ancient pea jacket and patched unmentionables, with a muffler and billycock hat and cracked boots, Galand in one pocket and flask in t'other, skulking round Conduit Street to see what his movements were.
Watershed
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Her love arrived at dusk, skulking by owl-light, carrying a bag, from which he took a mattock, shovel, knife.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Why is he skulking around in moth-eaten academia anyway?
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Add this to his slightly animalistic eating habits, and his tendency to wander out of the hospital and skulk in the bushes, and Justin was a puzzle like no other.
Forever Lost
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I threw my bag down by the door and skulked off into the kitchen.
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On general examination, Gollum is a pale, emaciated hobbit, with scanty hair and big eyes: ‘A skulking creature with an ill-favoured look.’
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McCabe apparently got all his information by skulking in the bushes outside the Goldstein's place night after night.
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They did not have to ask society's permission to express their natural desires, or to skulk ashamedly when they did so outside of marriage.
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A little melancholy will suit, after such ecstasies, but you do not have to skulk.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Ye've been shamming Abraham in yer watch, an 'sneaked down thaar to hev a pipe on the sly, when ye should hev bin mindin' yer dooty, thet's what's the matter, sirree; but, I'll make ye pay for it, ye skulkin 'rascallion.
The Island Treasure
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals
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An oriole in orange and black heard his challenge, and flew up the river bank, answering at steady intervals for quite a time before it was visible, and in resorting to the last notes he could think of a quail whistled "Bob White" and a shitepoke, skulking along the river bank, stopped and cried, "Cowk, cowk!
The Harvester
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While the others slept peacefully, I was slinking and skulking around in the dark.
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Down the bottom, skulking around coral in the sandy lagoon floor, are tiny damselfishes.
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Now they skulk about Starbucks in skinny jeans and hoodies and Chuck Taylors.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR OCTOBER 22ND | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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He skulked into the room under the pretence of finding himself a drink.
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I now plan to permanently renounce skulking for all time.
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Mexico's bicentennial tower knew what people were saying, it might slink off and hide if 341 feet of stone could skulk, that is.
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Although Paul Walker is the ‘star,’ we can see a couple of half-decent character actors skulking through the works here and there.
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Even at Unthank you didn't have to be a skulk to get picked on.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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It is not a bird that skulks and hides, like the cat-bird, the brown-thrasher, the chat, or the cheewink, and its nest is not concealed with the same art as theirs.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
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I skulk outside the crematorium gates in that suit, which I've borrowed again from my housemate Paul.
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Publication in 1930 of Bernard Riviere's magnum opus ‘A History of the Birds of Norfolk’ marked the commencement of almost three decades of steady increase in the numbers of the skulking and ever secretive bittern.
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She didn't go skulking around behind your back.
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And since I didn't want anyone to know I was worried about this, I've been sulking and skulking and letting the discontent grow.
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Ye've been shamming Abraham in yer watch, an 'sneaked down thaar to hev a pipe on the sly, when ye should hev bin mindin' yer dooty, thet's what's the matter, sirree; but, I'll make ye pay for it, ye skulkin 'rascallion.
The Island Treasure
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We do not skulk away from our responsibility of launching revolutionary violence to meet counter-violence.
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A little melancholy will suit, after such ecstasies, but you do not have to skulk.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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They skulk at the back, where portly men are eating prawn sandwiches and muttering.
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A parliament of rooks skulks around the far side, eyeing us suspiciously.
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And I prefer to go forth and meet my destiny, not skulk at home in hiding waiting for fate to overtake me.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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In recent weeks some shady looking characters have been seen skulking around the Dunamaise Theatre at night.
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An imposing man with the makings of a beard splotched across his face, Garrard skulked down the grimy Philadelphia streets slouched forward as if his muscles were barely contained within his hoodie.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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It was gloomy, and the skulking figures of the town's down-and-outs gave the whole area a certain not-quite-alive not-quite-dead feel.
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If your response to this sit-down was to skulk off and seethe, then you're falling short of the find-peace-with-it standard, too.
Fiance shortchanges her financial contributions
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The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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In this mad, mad world, decency and respect triumphed -- if only for a day -- silencing the wing nuts, who seem to skulk everywhere.
Penelope Andrew: HuffPost Review: Oscar-Winner In a Better World, and Remembering Elizabeth Taylor
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On general examination, Gollum is a pale, emaciated hobbit, with scanty hair and big eyes: ‘A skulking creature with an ill-favoured look.’
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Two German ironclad warships were rumored to be skulking nearby, and Deryn was meant to be watching for signals from Midshipman Newkirk, who was dangling from a Huxley ascender two thousand feet above them.
Behemoth
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Rashleigh, who had never before worked at any species of manual labour, was quickly termed a skulker, and was obliged to endure a double share of the oppression of his overseer on this account.
Ralph Rashleigh
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At first, they just skulked around the windows at the viewing parties and peered in like a bunch of creepers.
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The best, in my opinion at least, was the Siberian rubythroat, a ground-dwelling skulker with a jewel-like ruby throat.
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Other people are sensibly heading to work and you feel like a lowlife reprobate skulking home after a debauch.
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From that came all the images of some upper-class fellow in a top hat and cape skulking through foggy gaslit Whitechapel.
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And I prefer to go forth and meet my destiny, not skulk at home in hiding waiting for fate to overtake me.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Your solicitude so kindly exprest for my success and reputation, demands acknowledgments and thanks such as do not allways come readily to the nib of my pen, but lie skulking about my Heart in various shapes and colours, refusing to be brought forward but by force; and then, like many other forced fruits are apt to come, from my hand, very imperfectly and without relish.
Letter 80
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The word skulk has appeared in 11 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Dec. 18 in the Opinion piece "The Grim Good Cheer of the Irish" by John Banville:
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Why not take more elevated and broader views, walk in the great garden, not skulk in a little "debauched" nook of it? consider the beauty of the forest, and not merely of a few impounded herbs?
Excursions
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I feel like skulking in the back row and being cold and unfriendly.
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But she was a rogue - a thief, a skulker, a shadow of the streets.
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She still needed to move quietly, but she no longer needed to skulk.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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I skulked down the sunken path out of the village, down past the rough grit walls and rough pastures that are everywhere.
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She hissed, and skulked into her bedroom, closing and locking the door behind her.
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You, meanwhile, will be skulking in the safety of the car.
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The two mongrel dogs skulked to her side and sniffed at the hem of her dress.
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If astrologers skulk around in the netherworld of ‘not worthy’ or undervalue their own personal abilities to offer a professional service to people, then nothing changes.
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Our police force isn't notified about this skulker for hours.
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Unlike the absconding narrators who skulk out of sight in most modern novels, James refuses to hide behind the mask of authorial anonymity.
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A little melancholy will suit, after such ecstasies, but you do not have to skulk.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Outside in the freezing cold skulk bouncers Lucky Eric, Judd, Les and Ralph as the tale of a Friday night unfolds.
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Matt and Ken wonder why they ever left Czechoslovakia, where all they had to worry about was the odd Vampire skulking about.
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The bird is a notorious skulker, tending to show itself only momentarily, and is as difficult to see well as a nightingale.
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I love the idea of angsty, unsatisfied Teenage John skulking around Liverpool, calling loads of attention to himself both on purpose and by accident.
NOGOODFORME.COM
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If skulking losers can kill 90 people, imagine what they can accomplish if this emboldens them and they are no longer skulking.
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Even at Unthank you didn't have to be a skulk to get picked on.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Even at Unthank you didn't have to be a skulk to get picked on.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The dogs had flushed a skulking covey of bobwhites.
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Now they skulk about Starbucks in skinny jeans and hoodies and Chuck Taylors.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR OCTOBER 22ND | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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The album begins promisingly with ‘Built for Sin,’ a short instrumental with menacing, skulking riffs, and Carcass-style piquant harmonies.
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a number of foxes a "skulk" are mysteries of philology into which I will not enter.
Amusements in Mathematics
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I strode out of the room, and slammed the door, before skulking off upstairs again.
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In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
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And, of course, there are all these people wringing their hands and skulking around in the back. [Laughs.]
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A little melancholy will suit, after such ecstasies, but you do not have to skulk.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Cetti’s warbler is a skulking bird that tends to stay hidden in river-bank foliage, its distinctively explosive song giving its location away.
Archive 2006-05-01
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The problem with shooting over at Bellevue is that there are a lot of borderline psych cases skulking around.
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OK, there was the time I was driving my crotch rocket without a tag, cause I thought it would be helpful if I was ever being chased, to not have a tag, and they chased me for about 20miles till I cranked her up to 160mph, got some clearance and turned down a back road till it got dark and I could skulk back to my Garage ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Police Officer Pulls Over a Law Student
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Porter's Hobart skulks beneath a starry crucifix that has tilted sideways.
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The Bat skulked away and has lived in dark corners and holes ever since, never showing himself except in the near dark of latening twilight.
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If she is found skulking in any of these vicinities, she may actually face a spell in jail.
Times, Sunday Times
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While Barbara stays up in the clocktower tracking crime on the web, Helena skulks through the dark New Gotham nights kicking villainous butt.
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So Bissage is the skulker they are looking for at the Franklin Institute.
"They became a Wurlitzer for Barack Obama..."
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It stamped on his side, winding him, then moved protestingly off, to skulk against the byre 's far wall.
THE LAST RAVEN
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She prepared herself, skulking silently behind several crates, the door opened seconds later.
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It looked to be another clear day, so he'd spend most of it outside, skulking about the forest as usual.
