Wondering how to use Lurk in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as skulk or linger.
Lurk meaning
- To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- To remain unobserved.
- To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
Synonyms of Lurk
Using Lurk
- The main meaning on this page is: To remain concealed in order to ambush. | To remain unobserved. | To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- Useful related words include: skulk, mill about, linger, tarry.
- In the example corpus, lurk often appears in combinations such as: that lurk, lurk in, lurk around.
Context around Lurk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lurk
- In this selection, "lurk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, destruction, challenges, creatures, everywhere, outside and down stand out and add context to how "lurk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and destruction lurk around every and bones that lurk down each. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lurk" sits close to words such as abington, acura and adt, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lurk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But as is always the case in business, new challenges lurk. (11 words)
Terrifying tricksters and other creatures lurk everywhere at Haunted House Hilo. (11 words)
China’s Economy Grew Last Year, but Strains Lurk Behind the Numbersnytimes. (12 words)
As Eggers and Blaschke have proven so adept before, the many one-takes give a sense of a total command, granting more power to the actors while genuine scares are mined from the patient pans across rooms to uncover horrors that lurk in the corners. (45 words)
By day, Scotland’s surviving patches of rainforest are a vibrant palette of lush greens, where tiny creatures barely visible against the woodland mosaic lurk, soft mosses, fungi and lichens cling to trees and tiny flowers carpet the floor. (39 words)
So, we must never let down our guards at any time against these deadly germs that lurk everywhere around us and that gleefully adopt our hands to cause diseases that can end up being fatal. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
As such, showcases the darker, violent, vengeful kind of love which is all the more common when death and destruction lurk around every corner.
But as is always the case in business, new challenges lurk.
It also foreshadows the things that lurk outside Bill's compound that will eventually strike when Bill and Frank least expect it.
I use prepared fillets to save the pernickety task of tugging out the fine bones that lurk down each side of a whole kipper.
Loch Ness monster hunters who gathered in Scotland last month released their findings of what might lurk beneath the waters in the Scottish Highlands.
Manmade disasters also lurk on the horizon, with tensions between China, Taiwan, and the U.S. threatening global economic stability.
One industry expert foresees a domino effectA container shipping price war could lurk on the horizon.
On Thursday, Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips, the commander of St Catherine South, said cops have noticed a “freestyling” by criminals, who lurk around looking for opportunities.
So, we must never let down our guards at any time against these deadly germs that lurk everywhere around us and that gleefully adopt our hands to cause diseases that can end up being fatal.
Terrifying tricksters and other creatures lurk everywhere at Haunted House Hilo.
The Black Stars will engage CAR in a dicey group E clash with an opposition that lurk at the third position on the log with seven points, two shy of the coach Hughton’s side.
Various wild spawns lurk during the event too, with players having an opportunity to get several Shiny Pokemon.
When faculty members start dying under strange circumstances, Alex knows that the seemingly random deaths must be connected to the supernatural secrets that lurk all around them.
Whether players get to find out the mystery of what might lurk inside remains to be seen, but if it’s anything to do with aliens it’s bound to make a gooey mess.
All the ingredients for volcanic activity lurk deep beneath Denali, which sits above where one planetary plate grinds past another.
As Eggers and Blaschke have proven so adept before, the many one-takes give a sense of a total command, granting more power to the actors while genuine scares are mined from the patient pans across rooms to uncover horrors that lurk in the corners.
By day, Scotland’s surviving patches of rainforest are a vibrant palette of lush greens, where tiny creatures barely visible against the woodland mosaic lurk, soft mosses, fungi and lichens cling to trees and tiny flowers carpet the floor.
China’s Economy Grew Last Year, but Strains Lurk Behind the Numbersnytimes.
It could lurk unobtrusively in a river-bed sand or a dumpster.
Microsoft’s variety of products, like cloud services and personal computing, touch a lot of different markets and competition seems to lurk around every corner.
Common combinations with lurk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- that lurk 10×
- lurk in 9×
- lurk around 8×
- lurk on 8×
- might lurk 5×
- to lurk 5×
- lurk at 3×
- often lurk 3×
- they lurk 3×
- just lurk 2×