loaf
noun
a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
was loafing
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past progressiveof loaf.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Like many other posts on Mr. Tow’s website, the idea came to him while he was loafing about at home.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2015
At least one of his fellow New York staff members complained bitterly to Kennedy that Cheasty was loafing on his job as committee investigator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce was loafing along in easy jumps.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Kennedy was loafing through the weekend at his Middleburg, Va., estate when he got a call from his press secretary telling him that Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba was officially dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
At odd times he has done "a deal of newspaper drudgery" and other work, but his "forte always was loafing and writing poetry,—at least until the war."
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
