Lurk Sentence Examples

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  • Imagine the stories that must lurk in the walls of this house.

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  • Nevertheless difficulties lurk beneath their general unity of thought and style.

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  • Hidden fees and high interest rates often lurk behind these offers.

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  • The sales staff may not lurk near the clearance section, but they still want to clear it out.

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  • Dental scaler Removing the hard calculus from teeth helps eliminate the places where bacteria can lurk in the mouth.

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  • The action game uses a stealth-based game mechanic, with the player as the hunter, seeking the enemies who lurk in the shadows.

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  • For authentic accessories for swing dancing, the best way to shop may be to lurk in retro and antique stores, or to surf eBay and the many costume pieces available from other swing dance enthusiasts like yourself.

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  • The Gaucho is no longer able to protect him and 3 small green aphids now lurk in his foliage.

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  • Blake reveals the dark underbelly where danger and murder lurk in the shadows.

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  • It was tempting to lurk behind one of these green lights and make like a panto villain, but I thought better of it.

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  • For beneath the glittering surface of India 's tinsel town lurk shady racketeers who use the film industry to make serious black money.

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  • Strange things lurk in the jungle and of course everybody has a secret past that they are all reticent to reveal and talk about.

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  • Here they will lurk waiting to attack any unwary fish that ventures too close.

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  • It is always best to lurk first and read all the rules and policies before joining the discussions.

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  • Many chat rooms have a specific theme so you may have to lurk to find out if you want to join the discussion.

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  • If you're heading outdoors, you definitely need to take some necessary precautions to keep yourself safe from the possible dangers that lurk in a mosquito's bite.

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  • The issue of the struggle was not a complete victory even in Byzantium for the partisans of image-worship. The iconoclasts left an indelible impress on the Christian art of the Greek Church, in so far as they put an end to the use of graven images; for the Eastern icon is a flat picture, less easily regarded than would be a statue as a nidus within which a spirit can lurk.

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  • It is no longer the merry, saucy hanger-on of the homestead, but is become the suspicious thief, shunning the gaze of man, and knowing that danger may lurk in every bush.

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  • From alien sightings to terrifying Skeleton Ghost Pirates, spooks and scares lurk around every corner creating high seas hilarity and swashbuckling excitement.

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  • For beneath the glittering surface of India's tinsel town lurk shady racketeers who use the film industry to make serious black money.

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  • They lurk in the cupboard under the sink with the old tea towels until they dry out and scream to be thrown away.

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  • Many Thomisidae lurk amongst the stamens and petals of flowers, which they closely match in colour, waiting to seize the insects which visit the blossoms for nectar.

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  • Safety The biggest problem facing visitors to Sicily are the hoards of pickpockets and purse snatchers who lurk in the main cities.

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  • Except by the obviously absurd assumption of the infallibility of copyists for the centuries before c. 300 B.C., we cannot escape the conclusion that errors lurk even where no variants now exist, and that such errors can be corrected, if at all, only by conjectural emendation.

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  • Theories of inspiration lurk behind the rich vocabulary of Greek prophecy; the seer is g v9Eos, 0€6X7prros, OEOirvcvoTOS, Oc040prtros, and Bakis and Musaeus give their names to sacred verses.

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  • Others again play the part of thieves in the ant society; C. Janet observed a small bristle-tail (Lepismima) to lurk beneath the heads of two Lasius workers, while one passed food to the other, in order to steal the drop of nourishment and to make off with it.

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  • Their reputation as raiders is sufficiently shown in the division of the tribe into two clans, the Hazari-khoas or "eaters of a thousand hearths," and the Kapah-chors or "thieves that lurk in the cotton fields."

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  • It shows how the child-mind gathers into itself words it has heard, and how they lurk there ready to come out when the key that releases the spring is touched.

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