lurking

lurk | American Dictionary

lurk
verb[ I ]
us/lɜrk/
to stay around a place secretly, or to stay hidden, waiting to attack or appear:
When I was four, I was convinced there was a monster lurking in my closet.

Examples of lurk

lurk
Underneath is the basement, in which a blind black man is lurking, waiting for his chance to enter the room.
On closer inspection, however, evaluative factors lurked beneath the surface even of the more disciplined contributions to the debate.
Questions about the implications of this view of man for death and immortality would be lurking doggedly in the background.
At the same time, the shadow of serious crime and gang warfare lurks beneath the surface.
Such elfin mischiefmakers should surely have lurked and scurried about the stage.
Behind this neat isomorphism of ideas, institutions, and book chapters lurks a venerable interpretation of university history.
Even a casual glance at much of the imported pabulum, both organic and conventional, lurking on the supermarket shelf lends strength to that particular argument.
He opted for a sentence containing two dangerous factors: a preposition and a coordination - with a than lurking in the sidelines as well.
The fear, however, that this could happen to themselves, often lurks below the surface.
Behind the relatively simple physiological basis of oral rehydration therapy lurks a hidden danger.
First, he fails to see the intolerant possibilities lurking within a neutral society.
Wartime literature was replete with metaphors about the fragility of civilisation and the 'wild beast' lurking within humanity.
The human figures reduced to type, shrank in size, and lurked the margins as guides to the monumental scale of nature's nation.
Behind all this lurks depression, the feeling of emptiness and self-alienation, and the sense that their life has no meaning.
Moreover, political tests lurked in welfare provision as in other arenas under the regime's authority.
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