loaf
noun
a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
had loafed
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past perfectof loaf.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Late in 1949 the Navy decided that its research plane had loafed long enough, and had collected all the data it could at the lower limits of supersonic flight.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had loafed on the pier at high tide, loafed in the streets, loafed in the cafés, loafed at Marowsko's, loafed everywhere.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Guy de Maupassant
Since Morse's departure, he had loafed, trusting to luck and the knowledge he had gained in high school.
From The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
I had loafed around the lanes, and had made friends with the idle and the dissolute.
From The Birthright by Joseph Hocking
He had loafed and indulged his youthful love for pleasure, but the satisfaction he had got was gone.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
