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Sentence Examples
During this hostile exchange, Nageku loitered near the buffet table and helped himself to some wine.
Alabaster couples loitered along the garden path, handsome, whole and serene.
Across the street, the fat man sporting aviator shades and a floppy straw hat loitered behind a calabash tree perusing the Bermuda Sun.
He loitered in the corridor outside, a tyre-kicker awaiting his turn in front of the magistrates.
Even though I was used to this kind of thing, being that I was perpetually hanging around with Celia, I loitered near the door while she browsed.
He watched the men as they loitered carelessly, paying little heed to how conspicuous they now were.
Below me, courtesy of the drinkers who loitered nearby every weekend, lay scores of discarded beer bottles.
Attendants loitered alertly in any available shade as they supervised the toiling men.
In groups there loitered men and women, all in strange uniform dress, all with a number of boxes reposing at their feet upon the ground.
He always kept a careful eye on people who loitered near the track, calling it a guessing game.
His wife, Xanthippe, and three sons lived in near-penury while Socrates loitered around the marketplace of Athens looking for debaters.
Dev Patel loitered around another corridor, waiting for his plugged-in phone to charge.
Shoals of saddled bream and horse mackerel loitered mid-water.
They loitered near the polling booths and kept an eye on the voters.
Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.
For days afterwards, strangers loitered outside his apartment block.
Wood is only 47, but death has lately loitered in the family circle.
I loitered among those spires and dangled over the roadway.
Examples from Classical Literature
In this wise were my musings, as I loitered homeward and entered my quarters.
We loitered too long around the colossi of Memnon and the palaces of the plain.
Dim ghosts of men and women, most of them, who loitered at this hour in these streets.
Now after that think you we loitered in the work of enrolling the Minute Boys?
I loitered at Attica, hoping for a place where I could put in my oar.
Under the portico, with its grey, sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.
We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed.
We loitered to such a degree that it was near the middle of the forenoon when we entered the market square of the town.
Finally it was all over, and it seemed to Rebecca as if she should never be cool and calm again, as she loitered on the homeward path.
The reddleman left the house and loitered on the hill adjoining.
They loitered through it in a pleasant chummy silence, neither caring to talk.
Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear.
He loitered about in adjacent doorways, quite like a hired fellow.
What should we gain, therefore, if we loitered in such company?
A girl sauntered past them as they loitered before their lockers.
The page loitered behind, talking, as it seemed, to the waterman.
In the background the cabby loitered, gnawed by insatiable curiosity.
Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that calmed my spirits, and eased my heart.
But it was nearly seven, and yet hornby loitered, and seemed undetermined.
Scarcely had they loitered through her lips, ere she was lost in slumber.
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He loitered and whistled and hummed while the clerk phoned to the station.
I came here partly by accident, and have loitered from choice.
Some of these people knew their turn for examination to be so far off, that they lay down on the ground to sleep or smoke, while others talked together, or loitered about.
She obeyed, but loitered disconsolately at the landing window.
Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed, where, no doubt, the organist loitered over the keys, making sure of his mastery of the coming Sabbath anthem.
For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep, looking round at the silent square, with its blank, close-shuttered windows and its staring blinds.
