loaf
noun
a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
loafed
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past participleof loaf.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof loaf.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
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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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
He loafed around for the next two months and used up the money he had been saving to buy me a ring.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2016
Perhaps 40 pelicans loafed around the island’s shoreline or circled in the air above.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2014
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
You loafed getting back down the court after your team scored.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
