Sentence examples for prowler from inspiring English sources

The word 'prowler' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use this word to refer to someone or something that moves around or searches stealthily or furtively. For example, "The police patrols the streets at night looking for any prowlers."

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prowler

noun

One who roves about for prey; one who prowls.

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Girls in an English school fainted in great numbers; women in Mattoon, Ill., reported being anesthetized and assaulted by a mysterious prowler.

Many of Balsam's best and oddest recommendations come to his attention through his fellow Web prowler Meir Dobkin, a neoconservative Brooklynite in the lighting business who camps out at the Financial Times' search engine, tapping in words like "rabbi" and "Israel" and "Jew".

I have been opening and closing cupboards for many minutes, many uncomfortable minutes, minutes in which I have felt, unaccountably, somehow stealthy, like a prowler, and, at the same time, guilty, like I've come here under the guise of being a guest but I am really a police detective sneaking around.

How could I stay abreast of what was going on in my house if, when the snow came, my every footstep in the yard would leave a trail of incrimination and such clear proof of a prowler on the grounds as to get Diana on the phone to the town police?

Before the dogs, Fay said they had a prowler every few weeks.

One prowler was thrown down in 10 seconds by one of the dogs when he affected to make a break.

We lived on South Champion Avenue then, in the last house on the street, and although I was only five at the time, I remember the night she woke us all up by firing a pistol out her bedroom window to frighten off a prowler.

The hamlet's inhabitants all watch for the prowler, Charles Goins, but can do nothing about him.

Worton has a resident prowler.

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