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How to use loitering in a sentence

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Irwin adds that the dangers of arrest or bashing from loitering in public places also do not exist while on the Internet.
Finally I had my chance, with Freddie loitering around the corals below me, gurning for all he was worth.
Police will also use a Dispersal Order to break up groups of youths loitering on the streets.
A long throw from Bailey arrowed on to the head of the giant Ben Futcher loitering on the penalty spot.
In fact, he spends his days driving around, loitering in the foyers of office buildings, and often sleeping in his car at night.
The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
We found that parental males keep track of how many sneaker males they see loitering near their nests during spawning time.
A bunch of roughnecks with feather-cut hair and Indian canoes was loitering by the river bank, smoke still wafting from the barrel of their gun.
Male arrestees charged with minor infractions such as vagrancy, loitering, or traffic violations were excluded from the project.
Close air support from loitering bombers over the area of operations also proved noteworthy.
Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool.
Stores with extensive ground-level car parking, which suffer car crime and loitering gangs of youths, are considering security patrols.
Herndon residents say the public loitering is driving down property values and raises safety concerns.
Yesterday's winners were loitering about, looking hopeful, but the chicha had given us bellyaches, and it was time to go.
It prevents people from stopping and loitering there for all hours of the night and deciding what mischief they're going to get up to.
I looked out of the window and could see three men loitering near the shop.
It turns out Risaku's mere hunch became reality and an assassin stood there, loitering in the doorway.
I engaged in mundane chit-chat and constantly asked dumb questions to just about anyone who happened to be loitering in the vicinity.
Outside my window I could see Neil, my former team leader, loitering near the car park entrance.
Her eyes strayed to a biker loitering near his glitzy ride, all chrome and shiny metallic exhaust pipes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr Powell loitering about the skylight wanted his captain off the deck now.
All this time, however, we are loitering faintheartedly on the threshold of our story.
The villagers began to gather, loitering a moment in the vestibule to converse in whispers about the sad event.
A few stragglers were loitering on the pavement, and one, a tall, thin young man in a long ulster, bent forwards as they came down the steps.
He was loitering opposite in the areaway of an empty residence.
I cannot imagine any one's loitering in Bastia longer than he can help.
Three men were loitering in the southwest corner by the drinking fountain.
As the boy was rather given to loitering, I went to the window.
At times, he saw her from the distance, leaning over and loitering.
Then he lingered there, loitering about and not knowing what to say.
While the chambermaid was at her work, a solitary lady, loitering about the corridor of the second storey, was watching her over the bannisters.
A holiday merrymaker loitering under the mistletoe may not be thinking much about parasitic plants.
Well, it's loitering in a gambling resort and playing the handbook.
One of the first objects was to recruit a complement of Canadian voyageurs from the disbanded herd usually to be found loitering about the place.
If the Father found her loitering there he would reprimand her.
Oh, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
The city needs to seek review immediately of the 9th Circuit Court's ruling that the ban against cruel and unusual punishment invalidates the city's loitering laws.
Send these loitering knaves up hither,'' said the Saxon, impatiently.
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