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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

Bears and bears had lolled and slept and played there.

From Tales of lonely trails by Grey, Zane

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 Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Buffalo Bill and Thorndike had lolled both of those toughs.

From A Horse's Tale by Twain, Mark