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Example sentences for "loafing"

Lexicographically close words:
loaf; loafe; loafed; loafer; loafers; loafs; loam; loams; loamy; loan
  1. You're loafing till it makes us all sick to look at you.

  2. She can't prevent men from coming in by themselves and loafing here, if they choose to do it.

  3. Was loafing out there in the brush and having a smoke.

  4. Well, I'm expecting you to put your back into the job and do no loafing and pull us out of the hole you've got us into.

  5. The air of tranquil assurance about these three huge loafing monsters had a queer effect on Marjorie's mind.

  6. He took to loafing on sunny corners, and eying the passers-by with the blank impudence of regard of those outside the current of life.

  7. One night, after loafing a week, he came home with fever spots in his cheeks and a curiously bright, strained look in his eyes.

  8. Hurry, the soldiers are coming, and they have their stings all ready for loafing bees as well as for wasps and black bees that come to rob us.

  9. Of course the pilots were merry while at meals and during their loafing periods; but every time one of their number returned from the front and reported the inaction as still continuing, many deep sighs of discontent would arise.

  10. Give an old railroad engineer a week off, and presently you will discover him spending the time loafing around the roundhouse, chatting with the other engineers, and investigating things.

  11. There was no longer any necessity for "loafing on the job," to allow a tardy moon to come in sight, as had been the case before.

  12. In other words, one-fourth of the prison population belonged at that date to the vagrant and loafing class.

  13. The Committee adopted my view that Voluntary Labour Colonies of the German type are useless for persons of the loafing class.

  14. In the first place, let loafing of every kind, and not merely the loafing of the casual pauper, be made a misdemeanour.

  15. When we leave the casual wards and enter the workhouses themselves, a further loafing element confronts us, adding to the difficulty of our problem.

  16. Before leaving the question of repressive measures, it can hardly be superfluous to say that much could be done at once to discourage vagrancy and loafing if greater discrimination in almsgiving were shown.

  17. Outside the shop I nearly ran into a little man who was loafing in the doorway.

  18. True enough, I saw one, two, four, six guides loafing about the barriers leading to the main-line platforms.

  19. A loafing professional had been called in to assume the role of Ray, and, while he was a poor stick of his kind, he was not troubled by any of those qualms which attack the spirit of those who have never faced an audience.

  20. Broadway was full of loafing thespians in search of next season's engagements.

  21. The Answer: Comrade, I will tell you How I laugh and sing, Loafing with the lilies by the way.

  22. Occasionally he varied his saloon loafing by taking trips to Lake View.

  23. I feel ashamed to be loafing while you work so hard, Billy-boy," she greeted.

  24. But the breath of the woods was now a matter of small moment, for Silk and Satin and Nigger loafing at the sunny end of the stable pricked up their ears at her approach, and she knew that Roaring Bill was home again.

  25. Before he had left his home fairly out of sight he found Zeke loafing about on a corner.

  26. The air was filled with charges that the workers were loafing and malingering.

  27. Few people were in sight, and they loafing at the corners.

  28. Loafing that follows hard work and prepares for hard work is one of the best equipments of a man.

  29. Loafing that has no object, loafing as a vocation, is to be despised.

  30. I rather like the loafing which young Jebb indulged in, but I fear it is a type of the life which some college men do not follow.

  31. The loafing that carries along with itself the freedom from selfishness, appreciation of others' conditions, and gentlemanliness, is worth commending.

  32. There's too many sporty crowds loafing around those joints for a fellow like you to stand up under.

  33. Plainly it was a loafing or frequented spot for wild life; from the nature of the topography and from numerous tracks seen during later visits I learned that it was a stamping-ground and a trail-crossing.

  34. It is one of his favorite loafing and feeding places.

  35. Now you wouldn't have Fitz and me loafing around this town doing nothing, would you?

  36. It's a bit lonesome loafing around here alone, and, like you, I know of no place where I can find a bed.

  37. The special agent assured the smuggler that he would be as pleased in making a run back to the mainland as in loafing in the Hotel Myrtlebank, if there were amusement in it and a chance to make some money in an interesting way.

  38. You see," he said, "a sampler on Government wages would be in a pretty fix if he were let out after seven months and had to stand a chance of loafing for five.

  39. Edwards had been a pleasant enough fellow, and Oliphant had not objected to his loafing away a vacation about the old house at Quogue.

  40. Do you mean that that would be a life, loafing around all day, enjoying this, that, and the other fine pleasure?

  41. When he noticed that his desultory days made her restless, he took to loafing about galleries or making little excursions, generally in company with some forlorn artist he had picked up.

  42. How to succeed in loafing without really trying.

  43. But don't keep me loafing any longer than you have to, will you?

  44. I'm sick to death of loafing round this house.

  45. During the next month Don Mariano saw bears loafing about the edge of the woods or lolling over his fence at least a dozen times, and he couldn't at all make out what they were at, as they did not molest his hogs.

  46. I'm home early most every afternoon now, and I like the couple of hours loafing around.

  47. Here we are loafing six or seven miles from home.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loafing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dallying; dawdling; idle; idleness; lingering; loitering; lolling; lounging; rest; sloth; tarrying; trifling; truant