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Sentence Examples The man on the prowl piddled in his Rambo-wannabe camouflage pants and fled the scene. Ginny, an interior designer who has helped Carole furnish both of her homes, is always on the prowl for interesting finds. A nice patch of wild prairie, through which a Mega-Cat could prowl in search of prey had been replaced by a flat, featureless mud-plain. While Rawlin and David, looking like mongrels back from a prowl, laugh and stare at us like we were some sort of surreal aliens. Caliesen stopped his prowl around the room and looked at her, his big yellow eyes fixed on her. Just as soon as he heard the howl of approaching prowl cars Adam settled for a conclusion. Linked by radio to the computer, police in one prowl car simply call off a sampling of passing license numbers. Dawn is breaking just as a series of prowl cars screech to a halt outside, waking the dogs and causing babies to cry. You wouldn't see them at first, but sabertooth tigers, gigantic short-faced bears, and dire wolves prowl the land, stalking the grazers. As the daylight died, the shadows came to life and began to prowl about the hedges and corners of houses. His round hairless face encages an assortment of features that prowl across the surface, searching for means of escape. Soon they, too, will prowl these sun-fields just below the snow line, grazing on the delicious lilies. It brings out deeply hidden atavistic instincts buried deep within you and you begin to prowl in search of prey. After three months of much-needed TLC, Monty the moggy is on the prowl for a new home. But by warning people that burglars are on the prowl, it is hoped the criminals will not be able to take advantage of any easy pickings. The heroines could be divorcees with even a child or two, and the men they admire and seek to be with need not always be playboys on the prowl. Waldi warns us not to set up our beds outside the camp tonight as hyenas and jackals prowl this area. Rogue government and rebel militias who prowl rural areas are hardly accountable to higher authorities. Spiny king crabs prowl the deep seafloor for live food, eating other crabs and sea stars. Treading silently like tigers on the prowl, they slipped into the silky black shadows, blending into the night like wraiths. Show More Sentences Through the tiny window I watched the pensioners shuffling by with their yappy dogs, the parking inspectors on the prowl. The long-tail approach, by definition, requires you to be constantly on the prowl for underdog and underexposed offerings. Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity. Volunteers at the charity are self-confessed scavengers, regularly on the prowl for offcuts no longer needed by factories and offices. At tonight's game there don't seem to be any singletons on the prowl, but there are three couples on the ice. Believe me, I am always on the prowl for the suckadelic, be it box office boffo or direct-to-cable. It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats. He must dodge the proctors, with their attendant evil the bulldogs, on their nightly prowl round the streets of Cambridge. Their advocacy of limits on how long elected officials can serve shifts political power to the lobbyists who prowl the halls of state capitols. The shootings took place just eight miles from each other, raising fears a gunman could be on the prowl in the Highlands. Burglars are also on the prowl for bank statements, credit cards and passports to obtain credit in your name or to take over your accounts. Could a panther be on the prowl in West End's Itchen Valley Country Park where dog walkers and joggers normally freely roam? Affluent professionals living in the city centre are being targeted by thieves on the prowl for rich pickings at plush apartments. Worried that there was a thief on the prowl, hotel owner Hazel Hart immediately ordered a search of the building. Head on out to the home improvement store because you're on the prowl for paint. Two scrawny dogs and a lone cat are on the prowl, and the air is filled with swarms of ladybugs. His expensive Armani suits are razor sharp, perfect for any high-powered executive, yet flashy enough for a playboy on the prowl. They would then go and fence their ill-gotten gains, before returning to the streets to prowl once more. This that we hunt from our village is a tiger, too, a maneater, and he never cease to prowl. Marvel at the line-up of shabby kids in a line across the old Syke on Fellside, where smoke billows across the rooftops and cats prowl the cobbles. Show More Sentences And if you're on the prowl for an acquisition, it's a buyers' market. My innocent pleasure in those evenings shattered when a local gossip spread the word that I was on the prowl for other women's husbands, one in particular. Free from the torrid heat of the day, small creatures emerged from holes in the banks and began their nightly prowl in search of prey. He was referring to the stripy animals that prowl the country in declining numbers. He paused, she looked like a tigress on the prowl, and briefly wondered if he should try and run through the crowds to avoid a public confrontation. Vigilante groups armed with sticks and machetes prowl the streets of Borno and Yobe, complicating efforts to flush out the insurgents. Now, empty taxis, often bought with redundancy pay, prowl the streets in search of non-existent customers. Throughout this time they are vulnerable to Bald Eagles that prowl the colonies at night. Ensuring that the general public enjoys free access while pay-TV channels are on the prowl is a considerable challenge for society. The survey will show where in Britain wild cats are on the prowl. From muggings to murders, recent crime patterns show citizens returning home from office or an outing late in the night have become soft targets of the men on prowl. He adjusted his tie and slicked back his cowlick, ready for the prowl. As I sauntered down the beach on the prowl for a passed out girl that I could cop a feel from, I spied a raggedy looking tent that was selling strange looking wares. Melita Scheffel is on the prowl for books on neurology and paleontology. He'd gone along on their senseless, asinine prowl, ignoring them the whole way, hating what he was surrounded by and hating himself for reasons he could no longer understand. Last week residents of midtown Palo Alto, California, were warned of a cougar on the prowl in their neighborhood, where another big cat was treed and shot last May. She very nearly made Edie feel inadequate by the sheer felinity of her movements, by the sensuous grace of her silent prowl, the lively flicks of her tail. As I prowl its gold-paved nooks and wynds, from bookie to bingo parlour, amusement arcade to Lotto shop, I sense fate has fingered me for imminent riches. Despite a restraining order, the estranged husband continued to prowl around his wife's house, sleeping in her yard and calling her constantly by phone. Some taxis prowl and some rush headlong down the avenues — empty nearly all of them. Show More Sentences That dandy has nothing better to do than prowl around town all day in his pinstripe suit. The present unstable world condition presents a field of opportunity for groups with subversive ideas who prowl around every flock watching for stragglers. For example, the scope of the trespassing at night offence is quite narrow, as it applies only to persons who loiter or prowl at night near a dwelling house on the property of another person. Walk the rimrocks with a shotgun, cast a fly for rainbows, ambush a turkey, break a few clays or prowl the backcountry roads with binoculars. But the mugger is back on the prowl. Even though America is close to recession and growth in other developed economies has slowed, inflation is rising. Given such a situation, it should not come as a surprise that Uniprix's competitors are on the prowl, trying to lure our shareholders to either change banners or sell their business straight out. Just about all the lovable, hateable and hoot-able gang is here: gay, straight and transsexual, lustily on the prowl or searching for enduring love, pampered by exorbitant wealth or straight from middle-class Cleveland. I forget to go for walks, breathe in the cool air, smell the pine, feel the snow crack under my steps, watch the coyote prowl in the underbrush, observe the elk in small herds grazing under the trees. Go on the prowl in these leopard print tassled slip-ons, PS69 at Dune. Somali poetry depicts humans interactions, pastoral animals, beasts on the prowl, and other natural things such the rain, celestial events and historic events of significance. The cat was always on the prowl for bit of string or a dangling shoelace. Fund-raisers for white candidates prowl the nearly lily-white corporate finance corridors of the largest investment banks, where such contributions are still allowed. Somewhere quiet and soothing to assuage the instinctive need to prowl the city, hunt down over-paid civic suit people and deliver a satisfying hoof up a well-padded jacksy. The cold snap appears to have moved the fish away from the cooler inflowing water but has also put bigger fish on the prowl, with several anglers reporting losing big fish. From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl. Examples from Classical Literature He caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb. Did the prowl car boys find any traces of it when they examined the wreckage? He would get up on cold nights and prowl around, helping himself from the well-stacked piles. Round the outside of the wall, therefore, like the Midianite in the rather comical hymn, did Clare prowl and prowl. I suppose we may as well go for a prowl to-night, on the off-chance of finding him. When the prowl car boys got to the scene, there was no sign of anybody in the car. By Peter Haden After monsoon rain, poachers are known to prowl desert roads looking for Gila monsters warming themselves on the asphalt. In Geneva cats prowl about the streets like dogs at Constantinople. Now to find a lodgment for the night, and then to prowl round for a house. Sebright, bent double, circled slowly on a prowl of minute inspection. They continued to prowl round the tent, hunger-mad and desperate. When we returned from that prowl into the forest, we found the inn dark. I have likened it to a sentinel, but its slow wheel, for a moment, was rather the prowl of a baffled beast. One day the young shepherd told the count's steward that he had seen a wolf come out of the Sabine mountains, and prowl around his flock. These signs, therefore, of a band of marauders on the prowl, called for some degree of vigilance on the part of the travellers. They seldom traverse the underworld at night, for then it is that the great banths prowl the dim corridors seeking their prey. Do innocent men inveigle nameless vagabonds, and prowl with them about the country as idle robbers do? The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss In what was once Persepolis. A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. But if it kept her from being seasick it's a mercy I did prowl, isn't it? Show More Sentences In the evening I used to prowl about, hunting for diversion. Your maneater, as they of India call the tiger who has once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl unceasing till he get him. Find more words! 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