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Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for those of us who remain, we will loiter as much as ever we please.

From The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment by Grayson, David

The cool air—nothing else—has quickened our pen-stroke to a side-dash at political action: we will loiter back now, in our old, gossiping way, to the pleasant current of the dinner chat.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

True, the Indians and many of the coureurs de bois will loiter about until the last moment.

From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

I am afraid he will loiter about and be taken—do make them go on fast—he has left.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William