Example sentences for: lurking

How can you use “lurking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • American parents, who suspect all strangers, see a pedophile lurking under that bushy white beard.

  • Pros: No destitute hustlers lurking about (unless you count my friends), and I didn't have to leave the house.

  • That may not seem an auspicious beginning, but we must not despair, for an authority—if one is needed—must be lurking somewhere: either we have not found it or we must recognize the Editor's right to Humpty-Dumpty meanings into existence at a whim.

  • A story that had been lurking in the back pages for weeks--the saga of on-the-lam Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan--explodes today into everybody's lead with Ocalan suddenly in Turkish custody following his dramatic capture by Turkish operatives in Kenya, and Kurds across Europe rising up in often violent protest.

  • You couldn't say the same of a CLOSED sign--if it was off, would that mean proprietors lurking in the back waiting to make a sale?


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