loiter

We would loiter, mostly, and eat the shredded beef nachos that I still think about to this day while the plastic of our high-top Converse grilled on the scalding asphalt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

They can loiter over the battlefield as long as 20 hours on a single tank of fuel, allowing them to wait for mobile missile launchers to emerge from hiding and then strike them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

During this phase, the spacecraft will follow a large "loiter" orbit that stretches roughly 2 million miles from Earth.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026

On a sticky Delhi afternoon in the late 1980s, a group of architecture students loiter, argue and dream their way through a city that seems permanently unfinished.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

It gives us a reason to loiter in the area.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Alexis Perez, 52, loiters beside the settlement where he typically spends two weeks straight, working 12-hour days before returning to his family.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Seemingly intent on not losing her, McSweeney follows the woman into a shop, then loiters outside until she emerges.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022

This interminable shop sequence is paced so slowly that when a window closes, the image loiters until its latch drops into place.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

Besides being a novelty that loiters around your home, Amazon expects us to burden the Astro with tasks like elder care and home security.

From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2021

Mrs. Grandon's invitation is for a week, and Eugene takes her down in the morning, and loiters most of the day in the seductive house.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

In the days, weeks and months leading up to the release of “Michael,” the one question that loitered at the top of my mind was why Jackson’s estate wasn’t content to leave well enough alone.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

He loitered in the streets with his friends and called them “my pippin.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Border Patrol cops loitered on the sidewalks of a popular nightlife strip, where they got an earful from a passerby in a pink pointelle shirt.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2025

Dave Roberts loitered on the top step of the dugout, his best-laid plans once again not sticking to the script.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

In Lockhart, after conducting our business, Harry loitered on the corner so he could admire the figures of the ladies strolling by, exhibiting the latest finery from the local milliner.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“For privacy purposes, they’re not flying just in the sky and loitering, they’re responding at the onset of a call, usually through 9-1-1,” Warner said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

The farmer has attempted to deter people from loitering by spreading cattle slurry near the worst affected spots.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Cease your practice of copying tour pros, who have turned golf into survival of the finickiest by adhering to preshot routines that violate loitering laws in most states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

AeroVironment’s Switchblade guidable, loitering munitions came to prominence in the continuing war between Russia and Ukraine.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

For loitering too long in the camp toilet.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr