Lurker is an English word with synonyms like lurcher or waiter. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lurker meaning
- One who lurks.
- A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute.
- A small fishing-boat.
Using Lurker
- The main meaning on this page is: One who lurks. | A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute. | A small fishing-boat.
- Useful related words include: skulker, lurcher, waiter.
- In the example corpus, lurker often appears in combinations such as: the lurker, lurker at, lurker in.
Context around Lurker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lurker
- In this selection, "lurker" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, creepy, westminster, internet, guy, knows and too stand out and add context to how "lurker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the lurker at your and a loyal lurker in 2011. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lurker" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lurker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Lurker at Your ThresholdChemistry (aka, physics bumping uglies). (9 words)
Once and Future Lurker: German food is the wurst. (9 words)
The Lurker at Your Threshold: You call that a problem? (10 words)
That inspiration occurred while browsing through an attic with his elder brother, when King uncovered a paperback version of an H. P. Lovecraft collection of short stories he remembers as The Lurker in the Shadows, that had belonged to his father. (41 words)
I have caught up with the unlikely story of Mitt Romney alter ego Pierre Delecto courtesy of the Wall Street Journal story “In Flagrante Delecto: Mitt Romney Is Latest Unmasked Internet Lurker” by Gabriel Rubin and Sarah Needleman. (38 words)
The Lurker at Your ThresholdI wonder if there's a mathematically sound diagram for the rate of crossover between rabidly anti-gay people and closeted homosexuals. (26 words)
The Lurker at Your Threshold: You call that a problem? (10 words)
The Lurker at Your Threshold: FormlessOne: Sorry, kids - no finger-blasting by the punch bowl for you! (17 words)
Example sentences (13)
Creepy Lurker Guy: The following was witnessed by my brother: Guy across the street tries to mow his overgrown lawn with an electric mower.
As any Westminster lurker knows, to put it delicately, Mr Tugendhat and Boris are not buddies.
I have caught up with the unlikely story of Mitt Romney alter ego Pierre Delecto courtesy of the Wall Street Journal story “In Flagrante Delecto: Mitt Romney Is Latest Unmasked Internet Lurker” by Gabriel Rubin and Sarah Needleman.
The Lurker at Your ThresholdChemistry (aka, physics bumping uglies).
And I'm a lurker too, so I see this shiat.
I became a loyal lurker in 2011, shifting my blog loyalties from Jezebel to the Hairpin overnight.
Once and Future Lurker: German food is the wurst.
The Lurker at Your Threshold: FormlessOne: Sorry, kids - no finger-blasting by the punch bowl for you!
The Lurker at Your ThresholdIPAs are for degenerates and ineffectual people.
The Lurker at Your ThresholdI wonder if there's a mathematically sound diagram for the rate of crossover between rabidly anti-gay people and closeted homosexuals.
The Lurker at Your Threshold: That entire article demonstrates that the man is an example of "how to lie badly".
The Lurker at Your Threshold: You call that a problem?
That inspiration occurred while browsing through an attic with his elder brother, when King uncovered a paperback version of an H. P. Lovecraft collection of short stories he remembers as The Lurker in the Shadows, that had belonged to his father.
Common combinations with lurker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lurker 7×
- lurker at 6×
- lurker in 2×