loll
verb (used without object)
to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge.
had lolled
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past perfectof loll.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Reporters who had lolled for years on desks in the detective bureau were chased out as "loiterers."
From Time Magazine Archive
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home—Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkonski who had lolled in Anna Pavlovna's easy chairs and with half-closed eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
He had lolled upon the iron cot through the soul-wrenching hours of countless nights, staring up through the black toward the concrete ceiling.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
Affectionately the sinuous trunk encircled him, and he was swung to the mighty back where so often before he had lolled and dreamed the long afternoon away.
From Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
