Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
Some worrying signs continue to lurk in the data.
All of these are software quality issues that can lurk in a program even if its tests all pass.
A constant shower of advertising and health warnings orders you to scrub, cleanse or purify every corner of the body, office or home. Bugs lurk at every turn.
The reason is that this problem is data-dependent; it'll lurk in the code until it spots just the pattern of data it wants, and then leap out and bite me (I tend to take bugs personally!).
Other losses lurk.
Yet behind all this self-congratulation lurk more sobering considerations.
It is handy for killing rattlesnakes, which lurk in the long grass that has all but swallowed the town.
But every bank ballooned in size, and there are strong suspicions that problems lurk beneath the surface of Banks' loan books.
Dangers lurk in the path of wilderness.
But somewhere among them must lurk one of humanity's ancient ancestors.
These enzymes (discovered in the 1970s by Dr Smith, in work that won him a Nobel prize) would lurk in the DNA-free cadaver and cut up the synthetic genome before it was able to do its stuff.
Any trouble that may lurk deep in the sea will remain obscure for some time yet.
It has built a steel fence around the woodland cottage resort at Muskoka that will receive the G8, and deployed special forces on overtime to lurk in the water and surrounding forest.
Combatants lurk in the maze of shattered buildings, taking shelter amongst tumbled rockcrete and using a thousand vantage points to snipe at the enemy.
Two elephants lurk in the darkening room.
Yet even with short development iterations and peer code review, large Numbers of defects still lurk in the software that we sell to our customers.
