loll
verb (used without object)
to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge.
are lolling
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present progressiveof loll.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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The pirates in question, those scurvy knaves, are lolling about the deck of their ship, debating the best thing about being a pirate.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 8, 2012
Four and a half million Americans, according to a National Broadcasting Co. survey, are lolling awake at home at 1 o'clock every morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's another lazy day in this university town in the mountains southeast of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and hundreds of kids are lolling around the ubiquitous Internet cafes.
From Time Magazine Archive
For as the wail of love or sorrow rings Along the night soft steps are on the stair And pathway; in the broken window wings Are stirring, and white arms are lolling there.
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
