Example sentences for: skulking

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

  • the quivering, skulking embodiment of a single word: guilty."

  • The daughter of the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and therefore dubbed a bastard by the papists, the Protestant Elizabeth ascends the throne to find the air still thick with smoke from roasted heretics, a team of skulking Catholics plotting her assassination, and a council of advisers (lords, bishops, sundry old boys) who snigger openly at the prospect of taking orders from a woman.

  • Afunny little man from the Justice Department was skulking around Slate the other day, hinting that DOJ's effort to force Microsoft to include Netscape Navigator in every copy of Windows 98 is just a warm-up.

  • The execution is even more problematic: There is an abundance of bad acting, heavy-handed moralizing, obvious dialogue--and, of course, the obligatory elderly Indian skulking about to highlight the mysticism of the situation.


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