loiter
verb (used without object)
to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place.
loiters
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present tense formof loiter (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
Four weeks later, the old, thin crescent moon finds Mars again on Dec. 31 and loiters with the Red Planet and the reddish binary star Antares.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021
By the traveller who loiters along the streets of Copenhagen, half-buried in the walls of many houses, a cannon-ball may here and there be seen.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
