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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