prowl

Object

• corridor: Upstairs, clipboard in hand, Production Manager Carol Fawcett is prowling the corridors in full ' Rosa Klebb ' mode.
• street: At night, starving gypsy children would prowl the streets begging you for money.
• cat: Place a bird box in a sheltered spot facing eastward and out of reach of any prowling cats.
• round: But then there were 30 wolves prowling round the island at that precise moment.
• stage: Barely ever standing still, the band members constantly prowled the stage giving it plenty of action with their instruments.
• lion: Go carefully, and if you do dream of great prowling stone lions, make them friendly ones.

Converse of object

do: A week later they had started to sprout, and late one night I did a prowl with the flashlight.

Preposition: for

prey: The one waited quietly in its den for food, while the other prowled about continually for prey.

Adjective modifier

• nightly: The sun takes just a few minutes to sink below the horizon, and the animals get ready for their nightly prowls.
• polar: The earth around the settlement looks somewhat barren as the only vegetation is the moss-like growth on the tundra where the polar bears prowl.

Modifying Another Word

• about: Good morning, he prowled aimlessly about to receive the lord has made me to get out!
• still: The particular fear was that he still prowled the neighborhood: watching children at play from a discreetly parked sedan.
• aimlessly: Then he prowled aimlessly about her from their clutches?
• indeed: Now Satan is indeed prowling around like a roaring lion and we need a proper awareness of danger.

Noun used with modifier

owl: After dinner we set out on an ' Owl prowl ' in the hotel grounds.

Followed by a transitive particle

around: In some she's prowling around modern day Cairo looking for someone.

Preposition: in

front: As we sat in rows of camping chairs, Caske prowled in front of us and started to weave his magic.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: The Bible says: Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
• up: On April 12th a suspicious white van was prowling up and down the North end of the High Street.
• out: The leopard prowled out into the light just behind him; he could feel the aggression rumbling its chest.