What's the difference between prowl and stroll?

Prowl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.
  • (v. t.) To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.
  • (v. i.) To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.
  • (n.) The act of prowling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was a prowling, volcanic presence on the touchline.
  • (2) It did not seem April was specifically targeted, the judge said, telling Bridger he was seemingly "on the prowl for a young girl".
  • (3) It’s one thing to let the lion prowl around your stock pen, it’s another to open the gate and let him in,” he said.
  • (4) The multimillionaire darling of the grassroots party faithful had stormed out of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet only a year earlier, and was now prowling the backbenches, preparing to wield the knife that would finish her off.
  • (5) On the other side of the door gunmen were by now prowling the corridor, looking for British and American guests to kill.
  • (6) In response to Alex Salmond's manouevres, he has recently been out on the prowl himself, thinking aloud about what Scottish independence might mean for his country, and suggesting radical changes to the way that Britain's institutions work.
  • (7) Quite how the pandas will feel after 10 years of prowling this same patch is open to suggestion.
  • (8) I’ve been doing this since I was 22.” A couple of local union organizers prowled the sidewalks, asking applicants to sign union cards, but they walked right past Kevin Moynihan, who cut an imposing figure clad all in black.
  • (9) But who would wish to buy in an age when Uber’s smartphone app prowls the land?
  • (10) When they spotted a gang prowling in a street out of bounds to Muslims, they called their Christian vigilante counterparts.
  • (11) Gates would prowl the car park to see who came in on the weekend.
  • (12) The story begins in 1960 when the 43-year-old Anthony Burgess returned from Singapore to find the England he'd left in the late Forties transformed into an ugly divided country where the last seedy Teds prowled the streets of London and race riots had erupted in our big cities.
  • (13) A few years ago, on a field trip, he spotted a common leopard prowling well into snow leopard heights.
  • (14) News that he is on the prowl can cause his prey's management to be driven to distraction to the point where the company is in danger of imploding.
  • (15) When the rest of the industry was building computers as grey, rectangular metal boxes, for example, he was prowling department stores and streets looking for design metaphors.
  • (16) Banking is changing: statements are paperless, payments are mobile, branches are sparser, more automated, populated by beaming cashiers prowling around with iPads.
  • (17) With Boris Johnson on the prowl, they have to gently trash the mayor of London.
  • (18) Alistair Campbell prowled around snapping at the snappers' heels.
  • (19) Yet as Bush throws everything he has this week at boosting his moribund poll numbers – from announcing dozens of party endorsements, to buying airtime for political ads and prowling television studios like never before – some palpable question marks are beginning to hang over campaign stops like this.
  • (20) Microsoft's Kinectimals has prowled onto iOS and Android.

Stroll


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  • (n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
  • (2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
  • (3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
  • (4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
  • (5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
  • (6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
  • (7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
  • (8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
  • (9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
  • (10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
  • (11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
  • (12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
  • (13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
  • (14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
  • (15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
  • (16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
  • (17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
  • (18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
  • (19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
  • (20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.

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