loll
verb (used without object)
to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge.
had been lolling
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past perfect progressiveof loll.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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The big chunks of the easy-to-find gold that had been lolling around in rivers for millenniums were gone after the first years of the Gold Rush, and Marshall himself died penniless.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
A short, thickset, wiry little man, dressed in white flannels, who had been lolling in a deck chair, now came forward and shook hands with me.
From A Master of Mysteries by J. Ambrose Walton
I had been lolling in the swivel-chair a full ten minutes, perhaps, when the telephone rang.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck
Come, come, Cousin Melton," said a brilliant, dark-eyed girl, who had been lolling on the sofa during the conference, "I beg of you to give over attempting to evangelize Edward.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Say, fellows, I've been thinking about something," said Bob seriously, so seriously, in fact, that the three boys who had been lolling on the grass turned over and regarded him with interest.
From The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize by Allen Chapman
