Example Sentences

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The nearly 400-pound birdfeeder bandit fell for a buffet of birdseed and suet and loafed into a tube-shaped trailer trap.

From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2021

But far more it was because the Warriors struggled—because Andre Iguodala got hurt, because Kevin Durant loafed after rebounds, because the Warriors never quite clicked.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2018

And in the “early candle-light of old age,” Whitman loafed by the waters of Timber Creek, near his friend Harry Stafford’s family farm in Laurel Springs, New Jersey.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2017

Harper loafed after it and Baxter, as Harper as has done to so many opposing outfielders, punished him for it.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2013

One day his southern neighbor, Joe Mondragon, loafed over.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols