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70 example sentences for LURK, such as:

1. The devil lurks behind the cross.
2. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
3. A crocodile was lurking just below the surface.
4. She didn't see the figure lurking behind the bushes.
5. Yet in his words there seemed to lurk a certain lack of conviction.

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 Meanings and Examples of LURK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lurk
 v.  stealthily lie in waiting; exist unperceived
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  They were as little children before Ahab; and yet, in Ahab, there seemed not to lurk the smallest social arrogance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
2  A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual life had departed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
3  It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
4  It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court, causing undefined shadows to lurk in the corners of the numerous projecting portions of the building.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Perhaps it was an impulse of unconscious loyalty, or the fulfillment of one of these ironic necessities that lurk in the facts of human existence.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
6  Yet in his words there seemed to lurk a certain lack of conviction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
7  The languor of midday had taken hold of the gathering, but underneath lurked tempers that could rise to killing heights in a second and flare out as quickly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She was bitterly cold and hungry and so fearful of what lurked in the mists about her that she tried to scream and could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  But, if he possessed those qualities, he'd probably have sense enough to feel the desperation that lurked just beneath her demurely fluttering eyelids.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  Thugs, pickpockets and prostitutes lurked in the unlit alleys and shadowy streets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
12  An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
13  There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
14  If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
15  So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
Example Sentence:
1  I looked into a certain corner near, half-expecting to see the slim outline of a once dreaded switch which used to lurk there, waiting to leap out imp-like and lace my quivering palm or shrinking neck.
2  Who knows what evil can lurk in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
3  Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
4  He thought he saw someone lurking above the chamber during the address.
5  She didn't see the figure lurking behind the bushes.
6  A crocodile was lurking just below the surface.
7  And other volcanic behemoths could be lurking among the dozen or so large oceanic plateaux around the world, he thought.
8  The devil lurks behind the cross.