have loafed
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present perfectof loaf.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
loafnouna portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
Example Sentences
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James Thurber said that "it is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all," but Reagan seems to have lost nothing in public esteem by taking time off.
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Dale took so many courses that he entered his senior year just one credit short of graduation and could have loafed.
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They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they?
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I have loafed and squandered, but after a time I felt I'd had enough and began to see I'd inherited something from the people who made Leyland's go.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
Levanto I have loafed into Levanto, on the recommendation of an Irish friend who, it would seem, had reasons of his own for sending me there.
From Alone by Norman Douglas