To one side lurked the dark shape of the railway station.

A glossy black shape was lurking just below the surface, a huge man-made leviathan.

Black-clad shapes lurked in all the corners and doorways along this alley.

The last thing he remembered was floating up among the stalactites in a broken corridor, up to where other sinister shapes lurked.

And at last among the lichen-grown ruins of their city only a single shape lurked, a stunted abhorrent perversion of nature.

What nameless shapes may even now lurk in the dark places of the world?

She led Mira deep into the gallery, to a storage area where hulking shapes lurked under dropcloths.

Strange shapes lurked deep within the blossom.

Ominous shapes should be lurking in the darkness, twigs should snap loudly, and no cemetery is complete without the startling flutter of bat wings.

Vague shapes lurked at the edge of the light cast by my staff; I could see only their eyes, and that not clearly.