SKULK in a Sentence

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There were hundreds of men skulking in the swamps and the mountains, defying the provost guard to drag them back to the army.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKULK
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skulk
 v.  move furtively and secretly; hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner
Classic Sentence:
1  He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Snowball was known to be still skulking on Pinchfield Farm.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  I'm merely a fellow skulking in the army.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  Avoiding, as much as was possible, all the main streets, and skulking only through the by-ways and alleys, he at length emerged on Snow Hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  I have nothing more to say, Mr. Holmes, except that I was angry with my wife that night for having held me back when I might have caught the skulking rascal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
7  There were hundreds of men skulking in the swamps and the mountains, defying the provost guard to drag them back to the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
9  The coyote skulks among the scrub, the buzzard flaps heavily through the air, and the clumsy grizzly bear lumbers through the dark ravines, and picks up such sustenance as it can amongst the rocks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
10  A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  He used to skulk through the less fashionable sections of the city in order to avoid meeting any of his former friends.