Example sentences for: loafing

How can you use “loafing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel, the film follows Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a poor loner who usurps the identity of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), a rich playboy loafing around Italy in the late '50s.

  • Those that are on the ropes for this revision, include fuck-plug a contraceptive diaphragm, with a single example from a college student in 1984, a term not subsequently found despite wide questioning and extensive database searching; fuck 5.b. to trifle or interfere with (that is, the usual sense of fuck with , but without the with), found in a single example from a movie; and friggin in the rigging , a nautical expression for loafing on duty, which is too uninteresting a figurative sense even if it does have some currency beyond the single oral example we have found.

  • Bush was loafing around with his buddies, waiting to execute Karla Faye Tucker.

  • The broad steps are a favorite spot for reading and loafing in the sun.

  • The authors decided that place-names spent too much time “loafing about on signposts.”


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