loiter

Example Sentences

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“We don’t like having anyone loitering around the entrance.”

From Literature

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

From Barron's

On a sticky Delhi afternoon in the late 1980s, a group of architecture students loiter, argue and dream their way through a city that seems permanently unfinished.

From BBC

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

From The Wall Street Journal

"He had always believed that memory behaved like a courteous guest - arriving when invited, leaving when ignored - but lately it had begun to loiter, hands in pockets, humming tunelessly in the corners of his mind."

From BBC