Example sentences for: stalked

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

  • This was the period when nautical marauders variously called buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, and pirates stalked the shipways and bays of the Caribbean.

  • Here is a sampling of improbable movie moments from the summer of 1999: A young man takes a sudden notion to hump an apple pie; a gargantuan crocodile inexplicably migrates from its tropical habitat to set up shop in a frigid Maine lake; a trio of doomed documentarians, being stalked in the woods by a furry witch, never stops filming and videotaping themselves even as they are supposedly jumping out of their skins with terror; the search for an Alzheimer's cure leads to the inadvertent creation of oversized mako sharks with brains so enhanced they are able to apply the principles of hydraulic engineering to their deadly advantage, to say nothing of operating commercial kitchen equipment.

  • The Kennedys are "stalked by tragedy," suffering "bad luck" or a "near-biblical blight" that has been inflicted, according to Mario Cuomo, by "gods."

  • In an editorial, the newspaper said, "Evil has stalked our country, and it has touched us each on the shoulder."

  • The USAT front section "cover story" reveals that one in four stalking victims is a man, 90 percent of them stalked by other men.


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