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Synonyms for lurker


Grammar : Noun
Spell : lurk
Phonetic Transcription : lɜrk



Définition of lurker

Origin :
  • "one who lurks," early 14c., agent noun from lurk (v.).
  • As in prowler : noun thief
Example sentences :
  • But no matter how he strove to run down the lurker, he lost him every time.
  • Extract from : « Brothers of Peril » by Theodore Goodridge Roberts
  • But the lurker refused to be caught and darted away into the shadows.
  • Extract from : « The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies » by Grace Brooks Hill
  • Then he glanced over his shoulder to see if any lurker was watching them.
  • Extract from : « Ralph, the Train Dispatcher » by Allen Chapman
  • With the mist floating across those openings, it would be easy for a lurker to watch him unseen.
  • Extract from : « The Defiant Agents » by Andre Alice Norton
  • Go thou to thy charge among the piles of the fuel, and see that no lurker remaineth to do injury.
  • Extract from : « The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • At that moment she could not have spurred her pony had the lurker in the brush sprung forth into her path!
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Canyon Pass » by Thomas K. Holmes
  • His conviction that he had killed the lurker became so firm that he stood erect to cover the remaining distance at a rush.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • Even Alice had now stopped thinking of Mr. Richard Ravenal, and thought only of the lurker in ambush.
  • Extract from : « The Wouldbegoods » by E. Nesbit
  • One of the sawing claws opened and closed, separating the head of the lurker from its body.
  • Extract from : « Plague Ship » by Andre Norton
  • He had recognized the lurker as a former unreliable employe of the Great Northern, discharged at the time of the great strike.
  • Extract from : « Ralph, the Train Dispatcher » by Allen Chapman

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