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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For two days he had been loafing about the town in quest of the money and had at last made the sum up that very morning.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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
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
Up to this time they had been loafing in an hotel, but from this time on they were going to work.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
On the whole, it seemed probable that only a handful of good-for-nothings had been concerned in the affair, probably men who had been loafing in the Belwick public-houses, indisposed to look for work.
From Demos by George Gissing
