lounge
verb (used without object)
to pass time idly and indolently.
have lounged
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present perfectof lounge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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On the low, grassy hills of Jugoslavia, shepherds have lounged for centuries, watching the smoke curl up from far-away villages and amusing themselves with strange, melancholy songs, gentle and careless as their flocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Washington newsgatherers have lounged in the Spring sun on the White House steps, cablegrams from London signed "Bell" have been passing, unknown to the loungers, into the executive offices.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have made no exploration to-day, except a walk with the guests in the morning, but have lounged about the piazza and veranda.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thus, since the death of our venerable friend, Jack Redburn and I have been the sole tenants of the old house; and, day by day, have lounged together in his favourite walks.
From Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens
I know that I have lounged about the streets insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
