loiter

As with every technology, satellites have their limitations: They are not particularly helpful on days of thick cloud cover, which is much of the winter in Ukraine, and can’t loiter over a moving target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

During this phase, the spacecraft will follow a large "loiter" orbit that stretches roughly 2 million miles from Earth.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026

It is, of course, on the policy detail that disagreements loiter.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025

In the Plus bonus mini-episode: Starbucks wanted to be a classy Italian espresso house, but it became a modern milkshake shop for teens to loiter and flirt.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024

In the manner of all high schoolers everywhere, my friends and I liked to loiter.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Alexis Perez, 52, loiters beside the settlement where he typically spends two weeks straight, working 12-hour days before returning to his family.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

It says the vessel slows down when it approaches areas where there are wind farms and loiters in the area.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2023

Polaris, the North Star, loiters at the end of the dipper’s handle.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

This interminable shop sequence is paced so slowly that when a window closes, the image loiters until its latch drops into place.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

The hunter loiters about, and the dogs beat the jungle for themselves, and when they have found a scent, give tongue, and soon run the animal to bay.

From Children of Borneo by Edwin Herbert Gomes

A gaggle of reporters and neighbors loitered around the property filming as a helicopter hovered overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

In the days, weeks and months leading up to the release of “Michael,” the one question that loitered at the top of my mind was why Jackson’s estate wasn’t content to leave well enough alone.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

He loitered in the streets with his friends and called them “my pippin.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Grindset impresario and assiduous podcast guest Scott Galloway loitered by the back bar.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2024

They passed Caesar, who loitered by one of the work sheds with a group of young hands, carving a piece of wood with his knife.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The farmer has attempted to deter people from loitering by spreading cattle slurry near the worst affected spots.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Over the past week, the ship broadcast that it was loitering off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, according to maritime-data firm Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

We just saw crows, loitering on fence posts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Defense Department last week paid AeroVironment $186 million for the first procurement in a five-year, $990 million contract for its Switchblade loitering missile systems.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026

However, the soldiers never carried them while loitering about alehouses and wharves, or the stables of the Afric Queen.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes