How to Use skulk in a Sentence

skulk

verb

• A man was skulking around outside.
• She skulked into her sister's room.
• One roach skulked under a food prep table.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
• Breaks into Beck's house to skulk around and learn more about her.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2018
• All the while, Hank and Aron skulk like shoes just waiting to drop.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
• The models skulked through The Box like zombies from a past life.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• This leaves Stephen skulking away to plot his revenge some other way.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
• The spectral, life-size, menacing figures lurked and skulked and leapt.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The hillsides weren’t yet in bloom, and fog skulked around the mountains in the distance, sloped and faded.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Osama bin Laden skulked in caves and a nondescript house in Pakistan.
  — The Economist, 21 May 2020
• Last year, a clown was spotted skulking around a Chicago cemetery.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2016
• Moments later, the animal is seen skulking away down the street.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
• The broadcaster obliged, was affable and didn't skulk through the gauntlet.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• While some drivers skulk away, others give you a hearty thumbs up, while still others will try to race you, mostly without success.
  — cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
• Smilodon, a saber-toothed cat around the size of today’s African lion, skulked across the grasslands in search of ground sloths and mammoths.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
• Call it a mixture of bravado and irrational confidence, but a great shooter is not skulking off the floor.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
• All the while, that rascally rabbit is skulking around, watching and waiting for… something?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• Remember when The Dreamers came out, and skulking off to see it in theaters with your friends was the thing to do?
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 2 Jan. 2018
• The shorter brooding time probably reduces the embryo’s risk to predators skulking around to eat the eggs, such as shrimp.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• No longer limited to skulking around on a bar cart, metallic finishes like aluminum and brass are in the midst of a dazzling comeback.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2025
• The three children go to school, work at harvesting the fields and sometimes just skulk around like many children their age, avoiding anything serious.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
• Polly's skulking around the Blossom mansion and comes upon a room with several shelves of wig stands, each holding a short, red wig.
  — Amy Watts, baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• For a time, Bitcoin was known as the currency of drug dealers and other bad actors skulking on the internet.
  — Nathaniel Popper and Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• In the distant past, wolves started skulking around human campsites, scavenging the carcasses left behind by hunters.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
• Refinery 423, for one, stocks Hoff hot sauce, golf balls in an egg carton and messenger bags with the image of a skulking bear.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• The Dreamers' Remember when The Dreamers came out and skulking off to see it in theaters with your friends was the thing to do?
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 2 Jan. 2018
• Presumably in Washington, skulking around the basement of the Capitol.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• But the Virginia-class submarine's claim to fame is its ability to hunt and destroy enemy vessels, both on the surface and skulking beneath the waves.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
• Product managers would skulk around Los Angeles parks, where they were routinely questioned by police, with their handheld units to try and find satellites.
  — Andrew Freeman, Outside Online, 21 May 2012
• The area has not had trouble with break-ins, Amat said, but this is not the first time the family’s home surveillance system has caught characters skulking around the property.
  — Joshua Sudock, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2017