loaf
noun
a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
have been loafing
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present perfect progressiveof loaf.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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I have been loafing about Paddington station for nearly an hour.
From The Four Faces A Mystery by William Le Queux
When I think of what you have been doing, all this hot summer, while I have been loafing around and amusing myself——!
From A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge
"I have been loafing awfully, and had to engage a 'grind' as a coach."
From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by John Jacob Astor
"You think I got it easy—got it for the asking, and that's why you have been loafing on the job," he said, with bitterness.
From The Landloper by Holman Day
For two days you and these boon companions of yours have been loafing on the job.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
