What's the difference between prowling and rowling?
Prowling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prowl
(a.) Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.
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.
Rowling
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Edwina Rowling Ditchling Sussex • Following the Guardian's coverage, I checked the NHS leaflet for details on opting out.
(2) J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) If the worst they can say about you is you're an OPENLY GAY EX-OLYMPIC FENCER TOP JUDGE, you've basically won life.
(3) Rowling said that she had been the subject of unwanted attention from "unbalanced people" and objected to the fact several newspapers had published pictures of her properties that were clearly identifiable.
(4) If we value JK Rowling more, then Hachette should win."
(5) The new commissions come on top of a number of forthcoming dramas, including Dahl’s Esio Trot and an adaptation of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.
(6) "I was delighted to experience and enjoy the attention to detail, creativity and superb craft that went into the first Wizarding World in Orlando," said Rowling.
(7) At the end of May, Amazon stopped selling certain titles published by Hachette, including JK Rowling’s latest detective novel .
(8) Through the Harry Potter movies he's become friends with JK Rowling, and gets very upset about the general preoccupation with her wealth.
(9) Months after Amazon started penalising Hachette's biggest names, who also include David Baldacci, David Foster Wallace and JK Rowling's crime alter ego Robert Galbraith, the company set out a proposal for a new way of selling ebooks.
(10) Book publishing in China is overseen by the state, and while the market has been opening up to western authors during the past decade – books by bestselling writers including JK Rowling and Dan Brown are popular there – works with political or sexually explicit content are routinely censored.
(11) Yours sincerely Clara Amfo David Attenborough Clare Balding Melvyn Bragg Brian Cox Daniel Craig Richard Curtis Judi Dench Chris Evans Stephen Fry Nick Grimshaw Miranda Hart Lenny Henry Gary Lineker Michael McIntyre Steven Moffatt Trevor Nelson Annie Nightingale Graham Norton Jamie Oliver Michael Palin Adil Ray JK Rowling Mark Rylance Simon Schama David Walliams Rachel Weisz Claudia Winkleman Reggie Yates
(12) Nevertheless, he would wait and see what Rowling comes up with for her debut screenplay before making a final decision.
(13) The Forbes list: EL James: $95m James Patterson: $91m Suzanne Collins: $55m Bill O'Reilly: $28m Danielle Steel: $26m Jeff Kinney: $24m Janet Evanovich: $24m Nora Roberts: $23m Dan Brown: $22m Stephen King: $20m Dean Koontz: $20m John Grisham: $18m David Baldacci: $15m Rick Riordan: $14m JK Rowling: $13m George RR Martin: $12m
(14) In the modern age, only the career of JK Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, is comparable.
(15) Last year after Rowling was revealed to be the author of the first Galbraith novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, the novel became Amazon’s top seller.
(16) We don't know what the consumers are valuing most – the distribution system Amazon supplies them with or the new JK Rowling that Hachette publishes.
(17) Amazon will face another test later next week with the release of Rowling’s latest crime thriller .
(18) It has also removed the possibility of pre-ordering books by authors including JK Rowling , whose forthcoming Robert Galbraith crime novel The Silkworm is not available on the site.
(19) "When I say he made Fantastic Beasts happen, it isn't PR-speak but the literal truth," Rowling told the newspaper.
(20) Guests included the mayor of London Boris Johnson, JK Rowling, Gordon Brown's wife Sarah, and the actress Vanessa Redgrave.