loiter
Example Sentences
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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.”
"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
By then police had arrested dozens of pro-democracy figures, including many of “my dearest friends and colleagues,” she says, and she noticed what looked like a police vehicle loitering outside her home.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
