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Synonyms for prowl

move stealthily

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Synonyms for prowl

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Synonyms for prowl

the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)

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move about in or as if in a predatory manner

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"When I informed them that there is a fox prowling in the area, I was shocked by their response.
"These burglars are prowling around Newburn looking to smash their way into peoples' sheds and steal their belongings and it's not acceptable."
"It was just prowling like cats prowl - exactly like that but bigger.
At this point, the defendant was arrested and charged with loitering and prowling and transported to the SSO jail.
He is a young, healthy, feisty, and curious big cat who displays great characteristics of prowling and stalking.
Each evening, they come back howling like dogs and prowling around the city."
With knife crime rampant and hoodies prowling the streets, it's a wonder they don't spend every waking hour shut in their bedroom with a Playstation.
A mother-and-son burglary team "were apparently prowling around [a] neighborhood looking for a house to break into," reported the LA Daily News, when they chose the house of a Canyon Country, California, woman.
Spending his afternoons and weekends prowling the New York streets looking for "cool," innovative fashion trends, Hunter and his girlfriend stumble upon a conspiracy causing him to redefine his very notion of "cool."
Right now, recruiters desperate for warm bodies to be shipped to Iraq are prowling selected high schools and neighborhoods across the country with sales pitches that touch on everything but the possibility of being maimed or killed in combat.
The firm has long been reportedly prowling around for large blocks of space, a search that has brought it to the doorstep of Silverstein's 7 WTC and, potentially, even the Freedom Tower
Kevin Hamersley, 24, had been celebrating a friend's 21st birthday in Bournemouth when he spotted a puma prowling the West Cliff at 4.30am.
Aman accused of prowling a town for sex with young girls was cleared by a Stafford Crown Court jury.
Book 1 in the "Hattie Marshall Frontier Adventures" series, Hattie Marshall And The Prowling Panther is a young adult novel about a twelve-year-old girl for whom frontier life can be scary.
When the prowling aerialist senses the faint echoes bouncing off one of these prey, he turns toward the target, quickens his chirp rate, and homes in for the kill.