loitered

A small, wiry, pockmarked young man with curly hair and a hard-to-place accent, he loitered in the area for hours, asking kitchen workers if his target would be coming that way.

He hung out in hallways and loitered on Northern California elementary school campuses, apparently unafraid of being noticed.

He is also alleged to have "loitered in the area of her temporary residence".

Merchants loitered outside the walls, selling the daily necessities.

When heat waves swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks at a time.