loiter

At a time when the most exciting films were 10 seconds of a train, bored teenagers probably would go berserk at the chance to loiter near an obelisk.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

They used an Iranian-provided surface-to-air missile that can loiter in the sky before homing in on heat from the drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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 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

Seemingly intent on not losing her, McSweeney follows the woman into a shop, then loiters outside until she emerges.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022

Besides being a novelty that loiters around your home, Amazon expects us to burden the Astro with tasks like elder care and home security.

From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2021

I had hoped that “A House Tour” would create a kind of memory palace, a mansion of the mind, but it just loiters, endlessly, in the gutters.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2021

He loiters with the briar rose, The blue-bells are his play-fellows, That dance upon their slender stem.

From Literary Byways by William Andrews

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

Border Patrol cops loitered on the sidewalks of a popular nightlife strip, where they got an earful from a passerby in a pink pointelle shirt.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2025

Dave Roberts loitered on the top step of the dugout, his best-laid plans once again not sticking to the script.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

But sometimes if you loitered long enough in the schoolyard, the other children would have gone home and you could play with the equipment before the office took it away.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

“For privacy purposes, they’re not flying just in the sky and loitering, they’re responding at the onset of a call, usually through 9-1-1,” Warner said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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

Some were held on loitering charges, while others were detained over their perceived "incorrigibility."

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Descriptions of the red car’s occupants, provided by witnesses who had noticed them loitering in the area where Otto Ziegler’s body was discovered, had been circulated through the Midwest and Western states.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote