(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.