(v. t.) To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder.
(v. i.) To prowl about; to rob.
Example Sentences:
(1) To mark the event, the Institute of Contemporary Arts has invited Proll to return to London to take part in a season of films and talks reflecting on the era.
(2) Proll first went to London in 1974 after her trial for robbery and attempted murder was adjourned due to fears for her health.
(3) Times have changed and so - evidently - has Astrid Proll.
(4) While at the Independent, Proll was outed by a freebie newspaper, which ran stories on a 'terrorist working in Canary Wharf tower'.
(5) Her face on 'Wanted' posters throughout Britain, where she was in hiding for years, Astrid Proll would like to think her life has moved on.
(6) Proll escaped the same fate as Baader et al largely because of her years hiding in London under assumed identities.
(7) Proll, who has just moved to Berlin after three years living in London, is extremely evasive about her involvement in what she describes as 'some sort of profession, or life-call'.
(8) Proll describes the RAF as 'the knife-edge of the general reaction of the young', who were furious at their parents for unquestioningly supporting Hitler.
(9) There were 27 cases of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), 6 of prolymphocytic leukaemia (ProLL), and 15 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL).
(10) One of them turned out to be Astrid Proll (1 ) , although I didn't know it at the time as she had a pseudonym.
(11) Many more of Proll's former comrades committed suicide or are still in prison.
Troll
Definition:
(n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
(v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
(v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
(v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
(v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
(v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
(v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
(v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag.
(v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.
(v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
(n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
(n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
(n.) A trolley.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
(3) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
(4) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
(5) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
(6) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Oliver on Donald Trump: ‘A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll’ Hang on a minute: who am I as a Briton to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign country?
(8) And I’m sorry, that will come before any internal party-political issue and I think I should be able to adopt that position without being attacked, without being subject to a nasty troll-form of politics.” On Tuesday the prime minister, David Cameron, promised to publish a comprehensive strategy on Syria in the form of a written response to a report by the foreign affairs select committee, which concluded that the government had failed to make the case for extending airstrikes.
(9) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
(10) Now, some are accustomed to Dawkins being a bit of a troll.
(11) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
(12) The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi hate site whose founder organizes harassing “troll storms” of abuse towards political opponents, surpassed the traffic ratings of Stormfront, a more traditional racist site, last July, according to the center’s analysis, becoming the most popular English-language far-right site.
(13) This is the dead centre of troll territory; what they're looking for is that sharp intake of breath; the collective, "How can you say that?"
(14) You should eat less cake’.” In response, Rushmore posted another picture with a defiant message for the troll.
(15) When women can be misogynist trolls, we need a feminist internet | Polly Toynbee Read more “We have got a very real problem with online abuse in this country,” she said.
(16) Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee carrying out a parallel inquiry, has said that at least 1,000 “paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia” were pumping anti-Clinton fake news into social media sites during the campaign.
(17) The most widely accepted definition of a troll is a provocateur – someone who says outrageous, extreme or abusive things to elicit a reaction.
(18) Trolls are not often in a rush to discuss their behaviour with a stranger who might spill their darkest deeds to the world.
(19) She admitted getting dates wrong, – giving both trials and the police three separate dates for the visits – but insisted the event, as Trolle later testified, was true.
(20) A variety of different forms of online abuse are highlighted on the site, from trolling (deliberately posting “offensive, upsetting or inflammatory comments online in an attempt to hurt and provoke a response”) to doxxing (publishing personal information about someone, including sex videos and photos, also known as revenge porn) and cyberstalking (“a pattern of online behaviour that is the long-term, intrusive and persistent pursuit of one person by another, making the victim feel frightened and distressed”).