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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prowl.

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Examples

  • Elaka prowled the room like an angry cat, until she came to rest in the corner farthest from her victim.

    Antimatter John Vornholt 2000

  • Elaka prowled the room like an angry cat, until she came to rest in the corner farthest from her victim.

    Antimatter John Vornholt 2000

  • Elaka prowled the room like an angry cat, until she came to rest in the corner farthest from her victim.

    Antimatter John Vornholt 2000

  • She drowsed and brooded through the day, and having arrived at Emile's room and finding it empty, she "prowled," as she herself would have expressed it, among his few belongings, for she possessed a very feminine curiosity.

    The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

  • Pirates brought to shore an antiwork, libertine ethos that was eloquently stated by Bartholomew Roberts, better known as Black Bart, a famed buccaneer who prowled the Atlantic coast from the West Indies to Newfoundland.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • U-boat submarine packs prowled the Atlantic waters to strangle her lifeline from the sea, the Luftwaffe ranged over her southern coast, and Hitler had ordered planning for a German invasion.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • My partner in crime had prowled the singles scene for over a year, ever since she left Dan.

    The Cougar Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

  • A mental image of a distraught La Forge, a Galaxy-class ship, and a gigantic alien vessel that prowled the void; these were the half-remembered Nexus dreams that had drawn her to join the Challenger in the first place.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • While the Allied armies marched east, OSS counterintelligence teams also prowled the rear to round up German sabotage agents left behind, some dressed in American uniforms.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • As he prowled the White House lobbying, Rosenbaum also sensed that Roosevelt had become disenchanted with his spy chief.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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