Example Sentences

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"Glad to know it; I got your letter and looked for you yesterday; have been loafing 'round here since then."

From Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

I have been loafing about Paddington station for nearly an hour.

From The Four Faces A Mystery by Le Queux, William

"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 Day, Holman

"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 Astor, John Jacob

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 Cambridge, Ada