loitering
Example Sentences
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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
Drones were spotted this month in France, loitering around a gunpowder plant and a train station where tanks are located.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
After the result, us reporters were still loitering in the street and we were kept waiting ages for the winner, the loser and the prime minister to leave.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
Ignatius pushed through the battalion loitering benignly on the fringes of the scene toward the desk of the office manager.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
