stalk

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Recent Examples of stalk She was arrested in December of that year and pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor. Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025 Licari pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor and served approximately one year in prison. Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025 Kendra was arrested in December 2022 and charged with two counts of stalking a minor and two counts of communicating with another to commit a crime, per NBC News. Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater floodplains of southern Patagonia. Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stalk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalk
Verb
  • Originally built in 1888 as a hunting lodge for the Austrian imperial family, Grand Hotel Fasano has evolved over the decades from a regal retreat into a gathering place for Europe's creative elite.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Twelve days after Smith fled, authorities received a call that two men had been shot while on a hunting trip near Kiana.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Having only raced four times in her career, this Brad Cox trainee strutted her stuff on August 28 in an allowance race on opening day at this Franklin, Kentucky track.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Then, Countess Luann posted a video of her, Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon, and Sonja Tremont Morgan of the Sun Bum Face Stick Morgans, strutting their stuff together in the Hamptons.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Senegal’s Lamine Camara is the type of midfielder that would help many a Champions League-chasing team.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Five teams are chasing a postseason berth.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the afternoon show timed for that sweet spot many parents know well — post-nap and right before the evening witching hours — Pearce pranced, high-fived kids and waved at babies being hoisted in the air.
    Lynda Lin Grigsby, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
  • The sculpture includes the full car body, along with Ferrari’s official prancing horse badges, front and rear lamp lenses, and hood straps.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025

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