Sentence examples for are loitering from inspiring English sources
verb
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
- For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
And so it happens that one sunny weekday afternoon, I come to press the buzzer at what I take for an old garment factory, outside of which two men are loitering apparently without intent, mobiles in hand ("Are you Becca?" one of them yells, at no one in particular).
The much-feared youth militias are patrolling the streets, and lonely men are loitering.
And we are loitering down into another crisis in a few days with the railroad workers.
Museum employees are loitering outside the building, there's a convention going on – three of them in a row say hello.
Chauncey's having a little lunch, reading the paper, and shining on the queens who are loitering about, thinking they stand a chance.
1.38pm BST Weather update from Nasser Hussain: the groundsmen are loitering about looking concerned, with a chance of rain later on – and thunderstorms are forecast for tomorrow.
We're loitering outside of Kuma's.
Larry Johnson was loitering on the perimeter, all alone again.
"It has just been loitering in Canada," he said.
The darker your skin, the more likely you are to be loitering.
