I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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There was nothing to do but read, but it was impossible to read for long with Aunt Emily prowling about .
around
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She could hear him prowling around the kitchen and when she went down he was looking through her manuscripts.
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But one afternoon Ellen was prowling around in his basement and found his thought-drawer.
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Under Dauntless's watchful eye, Cleo prowled around the attic, exploring.
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The Plot One day a cat was outside prowling around .
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If the killer comes prowling around to their side of the tree, they simply dart to the blind side again.
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And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around - one of them in the labor room, no less!
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Countless watchdogs prowl around the budget-making process.
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They'd come in prowling around .
■ NOUN
street
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Able-bodied youngsters were prowling the streets in droves.
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Dozens of white mobs prowled the streets .
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He prowled the streets looking, hoping to be picked off.
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The atmosphere is charged - the camera prowls street demos and violence and impassioned rhetoric spurts from citizens on every corner.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Officer Watson prowls the streets at night, looking for drug dealers.
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Police have warned the public that the killer may still be prowling the streets.
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Several wolves prowled round the camp, but were kept at bay by the fire.
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The babysitter said she could hear someone prowling around in the garden.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Able-bodied youngsters were prowling the streets in droves.
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Along a side street there prowled, one recent morning, a spanking white Rolls-Royce.
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Dreamy, deft and economical, it was born to prowl the airwaves.
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It was rather a free feeling, he noticed, prowling about the house at such an odd hour.
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Men prowled the motel like packs of wolves searching out easy prey.
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She had to steal out of the house before it started prowling again.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the County Ground, the wolves were on the prowl right from the word go.
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Dada had disappeared on some sort of little prowl of his own.
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Four victims so far and three fortuitous, but he's probably been on the prowl for three years or more.
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I find Rainbow in her taxi, on the prowl .
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Moving with the sureness of a cat on the prowl , he flitted back through the hold and outside.
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She always warned him, in whispered anxious tones, whenever the Bogeyman was on the prowl .