We loitered about gazing aloft at the monster windows all aglow with brilliantly colored scenes in the lives of the Saviour and his followers.
We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed.
I loitered about awhile, and then, for want of something better to do, fell to carving a railing with my knife.
We loitered about the ruins several hours, finding in every direction the remains of the dilapidated interior.
I loitered about the clear and rocky lip of the fountain, till the pool below reflected the stars in its trembling bosom.
And last night, with the sundown boat waiting at the pier, I loitered till twilight in the small and elevated cemetery between Galata and Pera, and, with feelings of even painful regret, gazed my last upon the matchless scene around me.
We loitered a moment in the small Armenian cemetery, the only suburb that separates the thickly crowded street from the barren heath that stretches away from the city on every side to the edge of the horizon.
The village was a mile or two before us, and we loitered on, entering here and there a vineyard, where the only thing evidently grudged us was our peep at the women.
There were Rodens to right of us, Rodens to left of us: in a field behind us, unostentatiously smoking Virginia cigarettes, loitered a watchful Roden bodyguard.
At eight we retired to our rooms with sinking hearts; at eight-thirty a group of sheepish men loitered at the stair-head, waiting for one less self-conscious than the rest to give a lead to the others.
Rose lent her bright cheek to Catherine's kiss, and the two sisters walked up to the door together, while Robert and Langham loitered after them talking.
Vagrant Indians, of various tribes, loitered about the streets.
It is more than probable that Mr. Hunt loitered in his course, to get rid of such doubtful fellow-travellers.
In going, the sweet Princess Augusta loitered last but her youngest sister, Amelia, who came to take my hand when the rest were departed, and assure me she should never forget Me.
I then loitered for my errand boy, till I found myself, by some indications that helped my remembrance, near the spot whence I had started.
On a long journey you have not time to loiter everywhere you would, or the journey would take a whole year, perchance even more; already I had loitered long at Wootton Bassett, and Cricklade looked less attractive.
I loiteredlong at Haughmond, and loth I was to leave so peace-bestowing a spot; thither the world-weary pilgrim might well come in search of rest, for nowhere could he find a quietude more profound.
He had loitered and dallied without motive; but the idle and unmeaning sinner is the most dangerous to others and to himself, and he realised it at that moment, so far as it was in him to realise anything of the kind.
Edward loitered in one of the windows, whistling to a peacock that was stalking solemnly backwards and forwards upon the stone balustrade.
Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.
For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep, looking round at the silent Square with its blank, close-shuttered windows, and its staring blinds.
They loitered until the ponies had finished feeding, and then they prepared to ride away.
Although the actions of Hu-ya, the war bird, led them to believe that the grove concealed some of their foes, they were unable to guess why the latter had loitered in the timber.
Then, like a dog waiting for a squirrel, he loitered about in the sky.
With a tickling sensation at the back of his neck Dave "loitered round".
We were pleased with Toulon, and loitered here two whole days.
His gaiety, which was extreme, had the strange effect of awakening in me contrary feelings; a presentiment of evil hung over me; I loitered on my return; I counted the hours that must elapse before I saw Idris again.
Krechovski complained that the hussars and the dragoons marched too slowly, that they loitered too long at the crossings, that the young son of the hetman had no military experience; but with all that he gave orders to move on.
Great crowds loitered along the river, fired muskets, crowded and pushed to the quarters of the hetman himself, who finally ordered Yakubovich to drive them away.
Unlike his father and most of his progenitors, he possessed a winning tongue and beguiling air; he had loitered in ladies' bowers, and they had taught him well.
The nocturnal coolness of the atmosphere cheered him up; the silence, the darkness gave him sharp sensations of delight, and he loitered on his way.
I loitered round your chair, so as to move in your breath, to drag my clothes over yours.
The individual mentioned loitered as usual, but, instead of following the line of the path, his eye rather sought some object in the direction of the fields.
The day following Ruis did not venture to make a second visit, but he loitered on the red road both in the clear forenoon and in the slumbering dusk; but he loitered in vain.
Fausta re-entered the house, but her mother loitered on the porch.
It is wrong," he muttered, and a breeze thatloitered answered, "It is right.
As we loitered slowly on together the brute that accompanied me was urging me to throw myself down the shaft.
Mr. Spokesly loitered because he knew, when he was once again in his own cabin, that he would be facing a problem which makes all men, except artists and scoundrels, uneasy.
In this square Philip had loitered and played as a child.
Below the mound where the tuneful youth loitered was a path, leading down through the fields and into the highway.
The sergeant plied him with questions which he answered carefully, knowing that in all the circumstances of his having loitered in the vicinity he might not unnaturally be suspected of complicity.
He resumed his talk with the clerk, speaking in a low tone, while the Governor loitered at the magazine counter.
As they spoke they had loitered towards the edge of the glade, and halting there stood silent, till presently from under the shadow of a cedar tree appeared a solitary, white robed woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loitered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
