skulk , also: sculk

Anything would be better than skulking around in the dark.

And who is this I see skulking in behind you?

Yet to be found skulking here would do me no good.

No way was he going to go skulking around the place at night.

They were skulking in their rooms on the second floor.

The three of them skulked about the neighborhood for some minutes.

You skulk home without having set foot on a court.

Let him skulk, and think I have no heart for fighting.

By God, he would not skulk out the back entrance again.

"What are you doing, skulking round the place at dead of night?"

There might be a few still skulking around the outer system.

That was one of the troubles with skulking off on your own.

Perhaps he was just skulking, trying to find his own way in around the press and cameras.

"What are you doing here instead of skulking in Rome?"

"So we do not need to skulk like thieves through the night after all."

Why think you I am here, skulking like a thief in dark night?

"You get a group of people skulking around in the process.

There it was, skulking on my side of the fence.

Jesse's skulking around in the dark of night may be difficult for some children to focus on.

I expect there are many like him skulking in these hills.

I had to know who was skulking about, looking into things that were none of their concern.

She would not be reduced to skulking in the back room of her own shop.

One or two more emerged from where they had been skulking in the forest.

She continued skulking through the shadows, getting better at it.

I found him skulking in the reeds to the south.