Sentence examples for skulk from inspiring English sources

He expected his riflemen to "skulk" in the Indian manner but ordered that if any other kind of soldier "shall attempt to skulk, hide himself or retreat from the enemy without orders of his commanding officer, he will instantly be shot down as an example of cowardice".

Here, police skulk around our taxi, peering through the spider-web of windscreen cracks.

NATIONAL monuments skulk in the smog.

"I'm not going to hide away or skulk because the Tories want to turn me into some kind of bogey figure," he told the website leftfootforward.org.org

Newman's reaction wasn't to skulk off, humiliated, but to spend six hours in the gym every day, buffing up.

As there are a couple of square brick pillars along the walkway, behind which a potential assailant could skulk, the wedge does coincidentally serve to prevent assaults.

We skulk back to our hotel where they are pulling down the iron shutters.

A pointy-toothed neon coral trout mouthed obscenities when we disturbed him by sitting on the bottom, eight metres down, to watch rays skulk and reef life pass overhead.

Fantine's co-workers turn on her like a shot, Valjean is treated like dirt and the people of Paris skulk away behind their shutters rather than backing the revolutionaries.

Dubstep, though, remains oddly insular, populated by mysterious producers who skulk behind names like Digital Mystikz and Pinch – both of whom appear on the new Box Of Dub 2 compilation (Soul Jazz).

Don't skulk, sulk, or become bitter or sarcastic.