loaf
noun
a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
had been loafing
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past perfect progressiveof loaf.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He informed us that the red-headed chap who had been loafing around Kelman's had gone to Europe.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
While Cam was speaking I noticed that Jean Pahusca who had been loafing about at the far side of the crowd, was standing behind Father Le Claire.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter
While I had been loafing about the town, she had been attending to my small whims and needs.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
A fellow had been loafing around Jenkintown for three or four weeks.
From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton
He had been loafing about Bananaland on vacation just before we started, and of course he got wind and wished himself along.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
