How to Use loiter in a Sentence
loiter
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Some droplets seemed to loiter in the air, to be depicted as mist.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
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But the Mets are still loitering, in spite of all those broken backs.
—Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2019
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Blankenship was charged with loitering in a drug house and placed in jail on a $500 bond.
—Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 4 Oct. 2017
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Fare evaders hopped the gates and loitered at the top of the Metro station escalators.
—Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
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My problem is one neighbor who loiters with her dog at the spot where the alley that runs past my house meets the street.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 21 June 2023
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After 15 minutes of loitering outside, the bear moved on and walked away from the house.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
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Schwartz was charged with loitering in a drug house and giving false name to police.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 21 Oct. 2019
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Don’t loiter here or come back later, Or the god’s staff and chaplet won’t protect you.
—Sarah Ruden, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
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Many of them would discuss an episode the next day at work, while loitering around the water cooler.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
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The practices take place most weekdays after school, and a few of the players' classmates loitered on the sideline.
—Max Marshall, SI.com, 26 June 2019
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Nobody knows for sure how many of these bike-share bicycles are loitering in the streets right now.
—NBC News, 16 Apr. 2018
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Among other tricks, the cameras can tell if someone is loitering in an area for too long.
—Arthur Holland Michel, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2023
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There aren’t many false notes, but the imaginative scope is somewhat hemmed in by scenes that loiter rather than leap.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
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The plane flew southwest, following the Ryukyu islands chain, past Taiwan, to loiter off the coast of Hainan Island.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
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Still suspicious, Peschkov circled the block on foot and again saw the group loitering on Reedway Street.
—oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2020
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He was seen loitering near scooters and using a sharp object to cut wires.
—Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019
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For months, vehicles loitered at his curb as drivers gaped at the framework, then the drywall, then the complete house.
—Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2018
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The guy who loitered statically around the arc last season?
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2019
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But instead of another 32-yard run, Samuel loitered in the backfield.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
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Ron Asheton, his brother, Scott, and their buddy Dave Alexander used to loiter out front, spitting on cars.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
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But what if ships could launch airborne radar systems that would loiter overhead?
—Michael Peck, Forbes, 17 June 2021
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When First Avenue is reopened, anyone who loiters and blocks traffic in front of the Heuermann house will be fined $150, the police said.
—Nate Schweber, New York Times, 25 July 2023
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The defendant was known to loiter in the building, according to neighbor Robert Skeff.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
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Today, youths loiter at these entrances with cell phones to send an alert if police or strangers enter.
—Washington Post, 3 July 2018
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Burros loiter in the middle of the street and collect handouts from travelers.
—Roger Naylor, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019
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To reduce the amount of pollution being pumped into the neighborhoods near the port, ships were then asked to loiter beyond the horizon, 150 miles from the port.
—Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
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Some will be designed to loiter at altitude while waiting for a target to emerge.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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The waxing gibbous moon approaches Mars on July 26 but appears to loiter near the planet the next day.
—Blaine P. Friedlander Jr., Washington Post, 30 June 2018
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The Cardinals were doing just enough to loiter on the edges of an upset, and at times Murray appeared to be getting into a rhythm.
—Kent Somers, azcentral, 27 Oct. 2019
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The first vehicle will loiter in low-Earth orbit for several weeks until the second Starship, playing the role of a tanker, lifts off and chases it down.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
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