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Example sentences for "prowl"

Lexicographically close words:
prowed; prowes; prowess; prowesse; prowest; prowled; prowler; prowlers; prowling; prowls
  1. On St. Andrew's Day many of them prowl together in the same place and the huntsmen are on the watch.

  2. Do you know, young lady, I think I will put out the fire now at once: I have just remembered that those wicked wolves prowl about and come after smoke.

  3. At night time they abandon their watery haunts to prowl among the sugar-cane plantations, the fields of millet and rice, which they devour with eagerness.

  4. As soon as the prowl car gets here, we'll take you right on down to St. Vincent's.

  5. When the prowl car boys got to the scene, there was no sign of anybody in the car.

  6. At the same time, he fished out the personal radio every patrolman carried in his uniform, and began calling for a prowl car in a low, somewhat nervous voice.

  7. Of course the prowl car braked fast and went down the exit after it.

  8. What do you think, a prowl car's an easy life?

  9. That's the prowl car," he announced, and went over to meet it.

  10. The prowl car started gaining on the Cadillac slowly.

  11. Did the prowl car boys find any traces of it when they examined the wreckage?

  12. Jean Valjean's, life, to prowl round his happiness, and carry it away from him.

  13. Through the darkness there swept a rustling sound--the rustling of those who prowl and fall asleep when days of festivity draw to a close.

  14. Their habits are mostly nocturnal, that is to say, they prowl around after dark.

  15. As soon as the camp is silent these beasts of prey prowl in small companies about the low shrubbery which surrounds the camp attracted by the appetizing smell of the campers' supper.

  16. Castleton, however, would not succumb to the strange drowsiness while he had a chance to prowl around with a gun.

  17. The several white outlaws began to prowl around the camp; some of the Mexicans did likewise; others waited, showing by their ill-concealed expectancy the nature of their thoughts.

  18. Des gayets, rogues who prowl about the suburbs just outside the gates of Paris.

  19. When on the prowl the crow glides smoothly and rapidly through the air, often changing his direction, now flying close to the surface, anon mounting high, but oftenest keeping nearly on a level with the tree tops.

  20. Then the priest paused, for he saw several policemen and keepers approach the cafe and prowl round it.

  21. It was then agreed that he would no longer prowl around St. Peter's and the Vatican, where his constant presence must have attracted attention.

  22. You shan't have to prowl the docks again if I can help it.

  23. My dear child," exclaimed Miss Nevin, "do you suppose that I would allow you two slips of girls to prowl around that old house alone, on a night like this?

  24. After that we shall prowl about Westminster Abbey and ruin our eyesight reading inscriptions on tombs.

  25. During the day they remain quiescent in desert spots or ruins, and at night they prowl about like jackals, hunting living prey or feeding on abandoned carcasses.

  26. Nevertheless, as he did not wish to prowl about New York all night, he could but try his luck.

  27. Reporters on the prowl had happened to read, happened to laugh, and eventually happened to pass through Twelfth Street.

  28. It's so annoying, there always seem to be Dukes, and foreign semi-Royalties who might better stop in their own countries than prowl about ours, seeking what they may devour.

  29. And certainly the root-idea of the dead, at least in the far eastern islands, is to prowl for food.

  30. And whatever his design, it was impossible I should suffer him to prowl by night among the houses.

  31. White wolves are quite distinct from the ordinary wolves that prowl through woods and plains in large packs.

  32. This remote vale, even at the present day, is but thinly peopled by white men, and is still a frontier settlement round which the wolf and the bear prowl curiously, and from which the startled deer bounds terrified away.

  33. For scoundrels are found in My folk, 26 Who prowl with the crouch of a fowler(?

  34. A lion from the jungle shall smite, A wolf from the wastes undo them, The leopard shall prowl round their towns, All faring forth shall be torn.

  35. So a lion from the jungle shall smite them, 6 A wolf of the waste destroy, The leopard shall prowl round their towns, All faring forth shall be torn.

  36. But Neeland had neither time nor inclination to prowl around and investigate; he had a duty to fulfil, a train to catch, and a steamer to connect with the next morning.

  37. And they have no enemy but age, for thirst and fever lie sunning themselves out in the mid-desert, and never prowl into the Inner Lands.

  38. Presently from their lairs arose, and shook themselves and went stealthily forth, those of Earth's children to whom it is the law to prowl abroad as soon as the dusk has fallen.

  39. He saw my fascinated gaze at an old clock, and at once invited me to a prowl with him.

  40. The conclusion of our prowl was the crowning delight: he gave me one!

  41. Half an hour later Lannis and Stormont returned from a prowl around the clearing.

  42. Day and night they prowl around on its walls.

  43. They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

  44. He procured a launch and began to prowl about, using a pole as a feeler.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prowl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bum; couch; crawl; creep; drift; flit; grovel; inch; jaunt; lurk; meander; mooch; pad; prowl; ramble; range; roam; rove; saunter; scramble; shadow; sidle; skulk; slink; slither; snake; sneak; stalk; stalking; steal; stealth; straggle; stray; stroll; tiptoe; tramp; vagabond; wander; wayfare; worm