loiters
- present tense form of loiter (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Alexis Perez, 52, loiters beside the settlement where he typically spends two weeks straight, working 12-hour days before returning to his family.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
Most days, Margaret — a musician with anger issues and the eldest of Christina’s three daughters — loiters just outside this boundary, occasionally helping Marion practice her singing.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Seemingly intent on not losing her, McSweeney follows the woman into a shop, then loiters outside until she emerges.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022
Saturn — our solar system’s other large gaseous planet — now rises in the late afternoon, ahead of Jupiter, and loiters near the goat shape of Capricornus.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022
It may be that fulfilment loiters, but Heaven does not disappoint mankind of hopes so great as these.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
