loaf
noun
a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
are loafing
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present progressiveof loaf.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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One of the reasons a steakhouse is such a prime place to order meatloaf is simple: the meat they are loafing is usually excellent.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
I figure if you haven't made an important decision in the last minute, you are loafing.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If you think you are loafing too much, lie down until the feeling passes."
From Time Magazine Archive
The boys are loafing Without game or caper; And the dark piper Is gone home with the birds.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
The dews stay late on the cabbage-leaf, And the red, red beet forsakes the ground; And lovers' wanderings grow more brief, And fewer loafers are loafing around.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870 by Various
