(v. i.) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk.
(n.) A number of foxes together.
(n.) Alt. of Skulker
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(2) In keeping with the long tradition of skulking secrecy, the appointment was not made public until 2000, by which time he was a lieutenant-general and, to those in the know, second only to Mubarak.
(3) Parties that skulked in the shadows, playingdown their sympathies with fascism and Nazism are re-emerging, having given themselves a PR facelift.
(4) His colleagues are shown as being manipulated by skulking professional agitators and to some it seemed more like a political statement than a human story about the crushing of an individual.
(5) There are hundreds of tired, hungry young men in makeshift camps, skulking in corners, massing with intent, playing a dangerous, occasionally violent game of cat and mouse with the authorities.
(6) Then the assembled journalists (I count six) skulk off to the next job of the day 9.51am GMT Taking a closer look at the ONS announcement .
(7) They skulk away for a good think, and often stay away for days.
(8) Did I skulk in dodgy pubs with bull-necked men with shaved heads and bulldogs?
(9) "He'd then end up on the back of the toaster for twelve months before skulking back to the fridge and hoping that everyone forgets about his former delusions regarding his abilities and profile."
(10) Because of Ofcom rules, Openreach gets to skulk behind the service providers who have to deal with customer complaints on its behalf.
(11) You look at these augurs and realise things were never going to go well, and that's before even mentioning Stan's conspicuous skulking into the Project K bunker.
(12) The sight of Schalke players celebrating wildly on the turf at the final whistle, all hugs and punches of the air, while the hosts skulked off down the tunnel told its own story.
(13) Neither innocent nor guilty, you could skulk here for decades, while the alderman's daughter grows old: between step and step, grow old yourself, slip the noose of your name.
(14) For my part, skulking under a canopy of trees, I tried to even out a tennis court that was badly misshapen.
(15) That skulking between planes was an odd manoeuvre, very unlike his customary strutting.
(16) Their lament, orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, is music to the ears of tone-deaf neocons and oil executives everywhere: Iran is the snake skulking under every stone – backing Hamas in Gaza , Hezbollah in Lebanon , and the blood-drenched Alawite regime in Syria .
(17) They had no beer licence, but I got a cup of coffee and the owner told me in rich, mellifluous Irish how the place was normally teeming with Gaeilgeoirí (Irish speakers) but because it was a sunny day no one wanted to be skulking underground and so I was the only customer.
(18) I didn't want a life where I was skulking around with boxes of weed and meeting dodgy people.
(19) Didier Drogba , perhaps inevitably, had taken centre-stage in the dressing room while, across the corridor, a steady stream of crestfallen Bayern players skulked out into the night.
(20) Even while he has relished a return to the spotlight in recent months thanks to his assertive stance on the border crisis , the threat of serious legal trouble has been skulking in the background.
Skull
Definition:
(n.) A school, company, or shoal.
(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(3) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(4) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(5) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(6) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(7) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
(8) A three-dimensional anatomic model of a human skull was produced with birefringent materials for photoelastic analysis.
(9) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
(10) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(11) Tension pneumocephalus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and plain skull X-ray.
(12) After removal from the skull, the brains were processed for histopathological evaluation of ischemic neuronal damage by light microscopy and morphometry.
(13) The author describes three systems for (1) the treatment of mandibular fractures; (2) the treatment of midface fractures, for reconstructive surgery of the facial skeleton and the skull, and for orthognathic surgery; and (3) the reconstruction of mandibular defects including condyle replacement.
(14) To avoid the complications attributable to the cervical spine, we recommend roentgenographic examination in all neurofibromatosis patients who are about to have general anesthesia or skull traction for treatment of scoliosis.
(15) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(16) Lateral skull X-ray images are routinely used in cephalometric analysis to provide quantitative measurements useful to clinical orthodontists.
(17) The absence of a visible fracture on plain skull radiographs does not exclude a fracture, and those patients with clinical signs of a fracture should be treated appropriately and further investigations performed.
(18) In our study, 17 fractures were detected in 594 patients who had skull radiography because of trauma to the head.
(19) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(20) A new combination of techniques for resection of hemangiopericytoma of the skull base is described.