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Example sentences for "lounged"

Lexicographically close words:
louing; louinge; louingly; loun; lounge; lounger; loungers; lounges; lounging; loup
  1. Kingsfrere, in a grey morning coat with white linen gaiters and a relentless collar, nodded and lounged from the room; and Mariana soon appeared.

  2. Mariana, in a scant brown linen skirt, a sheer waist through which were visible precarious incidentals and narrow black ribbon, and the confoundedest green stockings he had ever seen, lounged indolently in a canvas swing.

  3. A dozen hickory-shirted and slouch-hatted men lounged against the wall or on empty boxes and broken chairs about its porch and door.

  4. Four men sat about it, and two more lounged upon the settee which ran along the discolored wall.

  5. He provided those who belonged to it with something to talk about as they lounged on the hotel verandas, which was a cause for gratification, since a good many of them had no more profitable occupation.

  6. Dettington lounged moodily against the counter of Randal and Hallam's winkel, his eyes sardonic, his mouth decorated with discontent.

  7. He lounged on his elbow, smoking a pipe of atrocious tobacco.

  8. A few uncertain figures lounged vaguely in the background.

  9. After dinner Shaw and Henry went out to hunt; and while the men lounged about the camp, I lay down to read in the shadow of the cart.

  10. Boisverd stood cleaning his rifle at the door of the tent, and Sorel lounged idly about.

  11. For a long time, with exemplary patience, I lounged about the camp, or at the utmost staggered over to the Indian village, and walked faint and dizzy among the lodges.

  12. There was another gathering under the maple tree; and out in deep center a third group lounged on the grass and waited for the call of "Play ball!

  13. For a few minutes he lounged around; then, looking ill at ease, he slouched out.

  14. Facing them another group, who I fancied meant mischief, lounged against the bar, looking on sardonically.

  15. And, being perfectly satisfied to be for once relieved of the duty, I lounged in the ox-hide chair watching them through the blue tobacco smoke, and noting what a well-matched couple they were.

  16. I then strolled over to Brookes's to see the morning papers, and lounged till about four o'clock, when I turned homeward.

  17. And so saying, he lounged away, while it would have taken a far more subtle listener than Harcourt to say whether he was mystifying the other, or the dupe of his own self-esteem.

  18. Outside, the cowboys lounged on the porch or lay spread full length on the grass smoking their cigarettes, and silent.

  19. They still lounged about the forts, begged for tobacco, gunpowder, and whiskey, and gave no sign of intended wrong or violence.

  20. Lanyard smiled an exasperating smile, lounged low in his chair, and looked at the deck beams--taking occasion to note that the tell-tale had swung to true northwest.

  21. She did not finish, but of a sudden recollected herself, lounged back in her chair, and laughed quietly, with humorous appeal to his sympathy.

  22. Lanyard lounged in his easy chair and let his bored thoughts wander.

  23. And so saying, Ashe lounged away, attracted by the bow and smile of a pretty Frenchwoman, with whom it was always agreeable to chat.

  24. He lounged along, turning every now and then to look at her, smiling and demurring, his hat on the back of his head.

  25. For there, at the foot of the steps leading up to its old-fashioned doorway lounged his mate, Mr Tregaskis, sucking a pipe.

  26. And, as he spoke, Quackinboss lounged into the room, with his hands deep in his trousers-pockets, and his hat on his head.

  27. How far such sentiments were distributed amongst those who now lounged and stared through salon and gallery, we must leave to the reader's own appreciation.

  28. Just as he was stepping into his curricle a tall young man, as gorgeously bedizened as himself, lounged down the steps after him, and beckoned lazily to the black boy who carried his parasol.

  29. In the evening at sunset we reached Mohasch, where the coals were wheeled on board by women, while groups of men lounged on the wooden pier watching their labours.

  30. Navajo men rode up and down the arroyo bed as graceful and gayly caparisoned as Arabs, or lounged around the store building smoking.

  31. I lounged slowly in the neighborhood, and watched him.

  32. That evening I lounged around the office, sitting in the long corridor into which the door from the street opened.

  33. BOOK V THE HOUR AND THE MAN I On one of the closing days of the legislative session, Ben Galt lounged into the anteroom of the governor's office and cornered the private secretary.

  34. Philip lounged and watched them sulkily, snuffing and wheezing and dipping into the bowl, and cursing the house for a draughty barn.

  35. The house was thrown wide open that day, and in its window lounged young men of honored families.

  36. The rest lounged sullenly about the land court.

  37. Through the dreary afternoon the men lounged about and cursed the parley, and hearkened for the tattoo,--the signal agreed upon by the leaders to begin the fighting.

  38. But some of them lived like lords in luxury, with never a seeming regret; and had apartments on the first floor, and had their tea and paper in bed, and lounged out the morning in a flowered nightgown, and the rest of the day in a laced coat.

  39. They lounged about, cleaning their guns, watching the myriad flocks of wild ducks and geese casting blue-black shadows on the ponds.

  40. He lounged away through the outer office, giving the smart lady secretary a keen glance as he passed her and getting an equally scrutinizing, if swift, look in return.

  41. That done, he lounged about a little, smoking, and eventually crossed the road towards the station--since when he has not been seen.

  42. Speaking of this one evening as he lounged in the landlady's parlor, he asked why no one took it and let the rooms to strangers in the fishing season.

  43. For nearly ten minutes he lounged there, gazing dreamily toward the landing, and then he turned back into the cabin and disappeared.

  44. Perhaps,” suggested Grant, as at last they lounged before the tent, “he has gone alone to solve the mystery of Spirit Island.

  45. He lounged through Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland, through Switzerland and Northern Italy, planning about nothing, but seeing everything.

  46. A vague sense that more answers were possible than his philosophy had hitherto dreamt of had already taken possession of him, and it seemed softly and agreeably to deepen as he lounged in this brilliant corner of Paris with his friend.

  47. They traveled together through Germany and into Switzerland, where for three or four weeks they trudged over passes and lounged upon blue lakes.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lounged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.