lollygag
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However, if the U.S. is really going to pull-off such a massive shift in its energy supply, it can’t wait and lollygag around.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2021
Yet we still go larking lightly into these wars and lollygag as we leave them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
Inside the park, they lollygag in meadows along the main road, coexisting easily with the tourists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2016
They were under strict orders from their mother to run – not lollygag or walk or jog, but run – directly home after hitting the road’s curve.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2016
Marita went on: I leave school at five p.m., and if I don’t lollygag around, then I will get home around five-thirty.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
On sitcoms like these, the kids lollygagged around, propping skateboards by front doors before sitting down to dinner tables piled high with pizza boxes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
But mostly, we lollygagged in our treehouse, playing cards, reading novels and watching the waters eddying past us on the way to their dizzying plunge.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2015
The Yankees’ hitting coach, Kevin Long, implied that Cano was a dog because, even as he had played every inning of every game, he sometimes lollygagged running to first base.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2014
“Half-stepping? You know, lollygagging? They get an earful,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
“I can’t just be out there and just lollygagging around. I’ve got to be focused. I have to pay attention to all the little details. I have to be on cue and poised every game.”
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
Friday brings the premiere of “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” an anime series based on the comic book about a young, lollygagging amateur bass player battling seven of his new love’s exes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
When he wants to serenade a love interest he can hardly believe wants him back on “Sweet,” he brings a drowsy drum loop and lollygagging chords to soundtrack his lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
It looked to be a whole lot of lollygagging and a walk that should’ve took ’bout a minute to make ended up taking a whole lot longer, but she knowed what she was doing.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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