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
On the benches six girls were lolling about, dressed in gaudy tights, and with them were three or four men.
From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Harry Beard
They were lolling round in a ring, while one of the number read drowsily from a big book which was lying on a bowlder in the middle of this Sleepy-hollow.
From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Edward Eggleston
