How to Use prowler in a Sentence

prowler

noun

• The same night the prowler showed up at my house, a car was stolen from in front of a neighbor’s home.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Simply the sound of a barking dog can cause a prowler to change his mind.
  — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The prowler was dressed in sneakers, pants, a jacket and a baseball cap turned backward.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• After an incident where a prowler is caught around their house, things start to not add up in their new life.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
• On July 6, Grayson responded to a report of a prowler at Massey’s home.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
• San Diego police officers, who had already been searching for the prowler, rushed to the home.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
• A couple in Monte Nido that night reported a prowler in their backyard.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Officers responded and spoke to the resident, who said the prowler had promptly fled the scene.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
• The post came less than two weeks after TCU police warned of a nighttime prowler or prowlers in neighborhoods south of campus.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
• Victims described a masked prowler who slipped into homes through open windows and tied them up at gunpoint.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2020
• The prowler’s image was captured on surveillance video recorded in the backyard.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
• Our first look at Mare shows her jarred awake from a deep sleep in the early morning by an elderly citizen who thinks she’s seen a prowler.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• An Illinois deputy is facing murder charges for shooting a woman in the face after responding to her call about a prowler in her home.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• In a three-day span last year, police responded to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon, a prowler, a burglary and a disturbance.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• About two hours before the fatal attack, a woman called police and reported a prowler in the apartment building.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Unlike web-spinning spiders, the app told me, the eastern parson spider was a hunter, a nocturnal prowler that emerged from its hiding place to stalk its prey.
  — Adam Roy, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• Grayson and a second deputy who has not yet been named were called to Massey’s home at about 12:50 a.m. to investigate a possible prowler, according to the sheriff’s office.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The sound of its festivities disturbs Grendel, a monstrous descendant of Cain and prowler of the fens, who launches a series of deadly nighttime attacks on the men sleeping in the hall.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• With adrenaline surging, Biddle chased the prowler to a white Jeep parked outside, committing the full license plate number to memory.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Allen met with detectives voluntarily on Aug. 10 about the June breach of privacy case and admitted being the prowler.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call from Yearber’s wife that night, asking authorities to come to their home in the 100 block of Pine Street in the Shelby community on a report of a possible prowler.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 29 Sep. 2021
• Packed with modern tech and with a large audience always looking for a sportier big-bore V-Twin, the Sport Chief could be a versatile choice; an ultimate city prowler with long enough legs and ergos for some sport touring as well.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The police were not particularly interested in catching the prowler.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• Sixteen months ago, Waseca police officer Arik Matson was shot in the head while investigating a seemingly routine call of a prowler in a backyard in this southern Minnesota town.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 20 May 2021
• Hooper also said police recently started receiving calls about a possible prowler or window peeper.
  — Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024