loitered

past tense of loiter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of loitered Other executives, coaches and support staff loitered in the hall, speaking in hushed tones if at all. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 May 2026 In the petition filing, Buckingham wrote that Dick had loitered around his and his family members’ homes, called repeatedly and left threatening voicemails, and taped a photo collage of herself and Buckingham to his mailbox. — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 Stella crossed the street and loitered outside the store window displaying haughty mannequins flaunting swagger coats. — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 At the start of that brief official visit, his first, five military-grade drones loitered dangerously near Dublin Airport’s busiest civilian flight paths unopposed. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025 The hotel is a short walk from the Jericho Tavern, where Radiohead played its first gig, in 1986, and around the corner from a now shuttered HMV, in whose aisles Donwood and Yorke once loitered, scouting the competition. — Zoe Si, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025 The drones also loitered above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly deployed for Zelensky's visit. — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025 There, the crop continued to grow while white-faced ibis and killdeer birds loitered around the water. — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loitered
Verb
  • Concerns lingered even though later studies showed the benefits of today’s hormone therapies outweigh the risks for many women.
    — Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Unaccompanied minors entering the state hit a peak of 1,441 in 2021 and lingered above 1,000 each year until last year.
    — Sasha Allen, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • At polling locations across Florida's Broward County, voting was delayed for 20 minutes after polls opened because a new voting system safety feature malfunctioned.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
  • During this time, as the district and the community colleges system responded to the safety incident, students’ disbursements were delayed.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The Euphemism Problem In April 2017, a passenger was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago.
    — Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The ship dragged its anchor along the seabed for about 80 miles, damaging two telecommunications cables, according to a court statement.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Reid returned but kept grabbing at his lower back, White returned after being poked in eye.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Kessler, standing nearby during Williams’ postgame news conference, poked his head out from behind a black curtain and gave his teammate a thumbs-up.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Jackson’s blind was situated on rolling private farmland, and late that afternoon a fawn deer strolled down a mountain trail toward Jackson shortly before nightfall.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Loitered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loitered. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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