Example sentences for: prowl

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

  • The longest stretch of Eyes Wide Shut features Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) on an endless nocturnal prowl, perturbed by his wife's needling confession that she once had a sexual fantasy about a naval officer she saw in a hotel lobby.

  • In the first sequence, Cheung re-creates her character's nocturnal prowl in her own hotel, the camera coiling around her like a boa and hovering breathlessly over her shoulder as she snatches a necklace from another guest's room, then regards it on the rooftop in a cool neon-lit drizzle.

  • Inflation was in double digits, eroding pension plans and savings accounts; interest rates had reached 21 percent, the highest since the Civil War; the Soviet bear was on the prowl, having gobbled up 10 countries between 1974, when South Vietnam fell, and 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

  • This is where Osaka’s trendy youth prowl for action, as do many of Osaka’s growing pack of young foreign residents seduced by the lure of easy yen.

  • RADIO-CONTROL MOUSE: "gets even the laziest cat on the prowl."


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