How To Use Skulking In A Sentence
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I feel like skulking in the back row and being cold and unfriendly.
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Down the bottom, skulking around coral in the sandy lagoon floor, are tiny damselfishes.
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I now plan to permanently renounce skulking for all time.
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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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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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In recent weeks some shady looking characters have been seen skulking around the Dunamaise Theatre at night.
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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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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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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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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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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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While the others slept peacefully, I was slinking and skulking around in the dark.
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You, meanwhile, will be skulking in the safety of the car.
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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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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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The dogs had flushed a skulking covey of bobwhites.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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White "and a shitepoke, skulking along the river bank, stopped and cried," Cowk, cowk!
The Harvester
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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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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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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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Across the road I noticed some youths skulking around.
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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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A traffic warden is skulking around and has just stuck a ticket on the car next to me.
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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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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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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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Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
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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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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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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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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
