Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prowling
IPA transcription: [pɹ'aʊlɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • "I warn't prowling around, sir, I fell overboard off of the steamboat."
  • Even the policemen slumbered slyly and there happened to be no prowling thieves abroad.
  • He had accidentally discovered the red skin rascals as they were prowling about the camp.
  • It was a nice, remote, bosky place where no prowling grown-up would be likely to intrude.
  • It would give him a good view in the morning anyway, besides protecting him from any prowling animals that might chance in that part of the forest.
  • Bears are dangerous--since our catastrophe--and I shall not be satisfied to have this one prowling about the place much longer without a muzzle on.
  • In the course of the summer, the French at Three Rivers became aware that a band of Iroquois was prowling in the neighborhood, and sixty men went out to meet them.
  • It seemed very astonishing that an animal like a wolf should come into the house; but I soon remembered that I had seen no dogs about, so that all kinds of savage, prowling beasts could come in with impunity.
  • Whilst they had been peeping at the corroboree, and talking, the dingo dogs that had been prowling around the camp, had caught scent of the Kangaroo; and, following the trail, had set up an angry snapping and howling.
  • Those battle-scarred ramparts were razed to the ground, and humiliating ashes sprinkled over the historic spot, near which a solitary lynx-eyed policeman was seen prowling from time to time during the rest of the winter.