loll
verb (used without object)
to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge.
were lolling
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past progressiveof loll.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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The scientists found that half of the 22 enlisted men on board, instead of going to breakfast, were lolling in their bunks.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the spring of 1942 a group of sailors were lolling on the gun deck of a transport at Samoa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their heads were lolling onto their shoulders, and fine streams of bubbles kept issuing from their mouths.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
The two men opposite were lolling against the doorpost, and the moon, rising behind our house, while still leaving the street in shadow, had just caught their faces, so that their every eyelash was visible.
From Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
Late one afternoon Dutchy and I were lolling about on the Goblins’ Platform, idly watching a hawk soaring above us.
From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
