How To Use Loiter In A Sentence

Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
Nel had also been seen loitering near her home almost daily, standing there while watching her house.
I was a conscienceless exploiter of men, a ruiner of families, a disgusting plutocrat who cared nothing for anyone but myself. The envelopes
It belongs to a friendly, middle-aged man loitering in his garden. Times, Sunday Times
exploiter" so long as he follows any pursuit, however honorable and productive, in which a Christian might engage in his stead. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)

This matter settled, I strolled back to the pipul tree beside the tank, thinking that it might be useful to pick up the remarks of the loiterers. Tales of Destiny
The reason I haven't been arrested is not because I'm white and haven't committed any of these crimes -- let's face it, I've jaywalked, littered, and loitered, which makes me a triple threat -- it's because I'm not poor. Jan Herman: Living in a Police State Is Okay
It's never too early to start loitering, and dilly-dallying.
We'll be left behind if we loiter.
Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress, and claim the fulfillment of my promise. Chapter 3
He spotted the youths loitering as he walked through a car park. The Sun
From the outside - where more than a thousand ticketless Beatle - maniacs loiter hoping for a miracle, or at least a security guard with his back turned - you can almost see Convention Hall vibrating.
Filling the role of Fiona Belli places the player in limbo between voyeur and subject, exploiter and exploited, violator and violable, and for most players, between masculine and feminine. Critique: Haunting Ground
This choice bit of dialogue was overheard by a loiterer.
A lot of people are loitering outside the city, just talking amongst themselves or smoking from pipes.
Alabaster couples loitered along the garden path, handsome, whole and serene.
I hold that one can loiter without being stationary.
There also seems to be no shortage of news outlets willing to make companies out to be the evil exploiters of labor and customers - after all, it sells newspapers.
Austin is also a fine place to eat Tex-Mex, take in live music, shoot pool in a bar, visit the South Austin Popular Culture Center, or if you're really feeling indie, loiter aimlessly in a huge, soulless out-of-town shopping mall. Film-inspired holidays: The Indie Flick
The symbols and culture of the middle class have proliferated to the point that many individuals are both the exploited and the exploiters.
It prevents people from stopping and loitering there for all hours of the night and deciding what mischief they're going to get up to.
Koogah dropped his walrus tusk and went also, leaning heavily upon his staff, and after him loitered the men in twos and threes. Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
Roxy and Virgie, in their clean Sunday suits, loitered around the bridge behind the store, or strayed a little way up the Manokin brook, hearing the mocking-bird rend his breast in all the ventriloquy of genius. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
He said the police often received reports of young people loitering around street corners, but the fact is ‘they have a right to be there’.
Is fond of his friends," continued the Professor, "and the heartier they are the better; might even be convivially inclined -- if so tempted -- but prudent -- in a degree," loiteringly concluded the speaker, as though unable to find the exact bump with which to bolster up the last named attribute. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
One of the other groups came across a young female stalking a herd of kudu, and we were able to join them watching the magnificent cat loiter around our vehicles, entirely relaxed and at times only a few metres away.
The unfamiliar tones of classical music can disperse loiterers, while big sound-blasters, known as "long-range acoustic devices" LRADS, have been deployed against protesters in some American states. The Economist: Daily news and views
On the day I visited, several manic-looking men whom I took to be junkies were loitering on the sidewalk outside the entrance.
At the foot of the fall some long distant collapse had made an undercliff, nearly flat, across which the water loitered in a broad shallow rock basin, till it reached another fall.
A bunch of roughnecks with feather-cut hair and Indian canoes was loitering by the river bank, smoke still wafting from the barrel of their gun.
Where the fields go wild and grow into brakes, and the soil becomes fenny, on the north-western edge of Grande Pointe, a dark, slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly north-eastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
Sata, who described China as an "exploiter" of local people, said that if voted into office his government would maintain mutual relations with the superpower and not "a big brother relationship where one had the upper hand. ANC Daily News Briefing
A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said the man, who lives in Little Horton, challenged the group of five or six youths he discovered loitering near his car.
The Soviet Union was ferociously reviled by the reaction and its coryphaeus at the service of the exploiters. MASS RALLY
It turns out Risaku's mere hunch became reality and an assassin stood there, loitering in the doorway.
The log cabin, set in a gall in the middle of an old field all grown up in sassafras, was not a very inviting-looking place; a few hens loitering about the new hen-house, a brood of half-grown chickens picking in the grass and watching the door, and a runty pig tied to a "stob," were the only signs of thrift; yet the face of the woman cleared up as she gazed about her and afar off, where the gleam of green made a pleasant spot, where the corn grew in the river bottom; for it was her home, and the best of all was she thought it belonged to them. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
It was an English scene, and the two men, the dog at their feet, (for Peter Dealtry favoured a wirey stone-coloured cur, which he called a terrier,) and just at the door of the little inn, two old gossips, loitering on the threshold in familiar chat with the landlady, in cap and kerchief, -- all together made a groupe equally Eugene Aram — Volume 01
There would be very little use for their strategic bombing role something that I think would be assumed by the Ohio Class boomers but their long loiter time and stealthiness make them excellent recon platforms. Cheeseburger Gothic » It’s like an unexpected fanfic festival.
A gang of youths were loitering outside the cinema.
This will reduce the number of latch-key kids, reduce loitering and crime on the streets and decrease the stress on mothers who try valiantly to juggle jobs, while at the same time looking after and raising a family.
The latter, however, has cleverly co-opted independent powerful women into the roles of exploiter.
Other charges included resisting arrest and loitering.
After a little good-humoured chaffing and laughing James managed to get rid of the rollicky crew, and shut the court-yard gates, having first made the round of the premises with Turk, the great bloodhound, just to satisfy himself that no loiterer was concealed among the bushes with felonious intentions. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
On every side the foliage blurred into ambiguous vistas, where fireflies loitered; and the long shadows of the nearer trees, straining across the grass, were wried patterns scissored out of blue velvet. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
Children and youth loiter around during the daytime because they have nothing else to do.
The girl loitered on her way home.
I realize that each episode takes nine months to make, but there were more noteworthy nickel and dimers and exploiters of children in the news in the last twenty-odd years. Catie Lazarus: TV Review: The Cleveland Show
Sure, some birds have names that describe their activities, such as flycatcher, or gnatcatcher, or their general appearance, such as bluebird, or the place they tend to loiter, such as cowbird. Birding season: No grousing or sniping
At noon, in the brilliant sunshine, as I came loiteringly down the long slope from Doles Wood to the village, he overtook me. Afoot in England
Lucy herself is seen neither as pitiable victim nor heroic coper: she is a liar, self-deceiver and ruthless exploiter of her mother's private wealth but also someone whose recovery hinges on a confrontation with truth. Knot of the Heart – review
-- Silicon Valley kids -- so-called 'lobbyconners' -- won't pay the entry fee for tech conferences but they will loiter in lobbies to make connections. Coffee Break: Oct. 15
No loitering then, soon as they heard that call; and many a warrior fell with bloody crown, and not a few of us thou couldst have seen thrown to the earth like tumblers before the walls, after they had given up the ghost, bedewing the thirsty ground with streams of gore. The Phoenissae
Yesterday, indeed, they promised me to do it, and actually went away as if bent on such a design; but Baneelon, instead of directing his steps to Botany Bay, crossed the harbour in his canoe, in order to draw the foreteeth of some of the young men; and Colbee, in the room of fulfilling his engagement, is loitering about the lookout house. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
At times and in places, peasants were scratching the dismal surfaces with the sort of plows which Abel must have used, when subsoiling was not yet even a dream; and between the plowmen and their ox-teams it seemed a question as to which should loiter longest in the unfinished furrow. Familiar Spanish Travels
Men loitering near the gas station began to scatter.
Stores with extensive ground-level car parking, which suffer car crime and loitering gangs of youths, are considering security patrols.
Her eyes strayed to a biker loitering near his glitzy ride, all chrome and shiny metallic exhaust pipes.
His step-mother accused him of loitering, of scrimshanking, of scornfully dishing up half-plates of food - more than he had earned, she sneered.
And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer. The Mistaken Wife
He sipped coffee in the lounge and picked out the British and German agents loitering in and around the airport building. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
In the evenings I loiter outside the restaurants where Anna entertains her clients in pre-Christmas festivities. LOVE YOU MADLY
No one would be so indelicate as to mention in those whispered after-dinner conversations that these families were slave-owners, plantation landlords, racketeers and exploiters.
But due to my vast and eclectic reading habits, I am already familiar with this excerpt from the O'Neill ouevre and consider it a masterpiece, so I can listen to Tony's excellent account of crazed druggies in London in his storied past while allowing my mind to wander a bit -- like to the intriguing headline in the tabloid of a nearby loiterer: "Cat predicts hour of patients 'deaths. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool.
The grass beneath the trees was evenly cropped, and pelleted with droppings, so some ruminant herd loitered nearby, keeping the sward neat. Son of a Witch
Regarding this he proposed that the exploiter must have the worldwide basis vision.
As the rumour that women who give birth in the store receive a £500 gift voucher spread, mothers-to-be have been seen loitering around the floors with no intention of making any purchases.
After an explosion the explorer restored the storage of the explosive in the exploiter's storehouse.
During this hostile exchange, Nageku loitered near the buffet table and helped himself to some wine.
This new provision will result in exploiters being able to exclusively exploit many fully depreciated repertoires lying in their archives.
This new provision will result in exploiters being able to exclusively exploit many fully depreciated repertoires lying in their archives.
We couldn't loiter, as the bell was tolling, the children already at the church, and some one rushed down to say that "M. le Curé attendait ces dames pour commencer son office. Chateau and Country Life in France
I was even whistling to myself as I loitered past the end of Hay Hill, and then my roving eye chanced to fall on a certain lighted window, and I bore up short, thinking hollo, what's this? Watershed
Perhaps KB the wise old bird saw through the manipulation and the scheming of the pretenders, fakes, and exploiters, and was determined to keep the wolves away.
Egg-laying hens loiter near their hen house and sometimes into the flowerbed.
They perhaps had one slight doubt: who were all those people loitering outside? Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday's winners were loitering about, looking hopeful, but the chicha had given us bellyaches, and it was time to go.
It belongs to a friendly, middle-aged man loitering in his garden. Times, Sunday Times
Show business agencies are competing to book celebrities into the May Fair and other hotels in the hope they will be spotted by paparazzi photographers loitering outside. Times, Sunday Times
You can escape the thugs and other louts who loiter on trains and buses.
In "Yvon's Paris," Robert Stevens's exhibition-in-a-book, the French photographer Yvon (Pierre Yves Petit) comes across as the ideal flâneur, a loiterer who happens to have brought along his camera. Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
A vast majority of people supported his government's policy, and ‘only a handful of exploiters are opposing a decision that has been taken in the best national and international interest’, he asserted.
I'm a loiterer in the Hallmark aisle of the drugstore, trying to choose a card. JenÃ©e Desmond-Harris: When Fathers Fall Somewhere Between Awesome and Absentee
The deskman replied that he couldn't be sure, but that he suspected some of the people loitering in the coffee shop across the street were members of the press. Grave Surprise
The seven solutions address intrusion detection, crowd control, loitering, standing vehicles, forbidden direction or path of motion, camera triggering, and facility utilization.
Show business agencies are competing to book celebrities into the May Fair and other hotels in the hope they will be spotted by paparazzi photographers loitering outside. Times, Sunday Times
Even after he has joined the Socialist Party, he will retain a certain solidarity with the class from which he has sprung; for example, in his relations with the servants in his household he will remain always an employer, an "exploiter," in the sociological if not in the coarser sense of the latter term. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
I tink I giving my hyperbole a lill exercise when I suggested that everyone give up the internet exploiter and get firefawx and sign up fer high speed jest so we kin git back our beloved burgers wid cheez. Plz to insrt carrot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
I engaged in mundane chit-chat and constantly asked dumb questions to just about anyone who happened to be loitering in the vicinity.
But they were well-mannered, loitering beneath the feeders, waiting for whatever sunflower seeds the finicky nuthatches and—does anyone happen to know whether titmice is the plural of titmouse—happened to toss aside in their search for the perfect seed. Backyard Warfare
The band had started to drop broad hints to Tony Stock that he should be paying his unofficial assistants and that he would be denounced to the press as an exploiter if he didn't.
The new laws will also forbid drunks from loitering around liquor stores, carrying baseball bats and fooling around with crossbows, slingshots, blowpipes and airguns.
Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system.
I presume it was the acoustic mix of ‘Insania’, but I didn't hang around to find out, preferring instead to loiter about the deserted cafe and eavesdrop on the celebrity chit-chat.
Even though I was used to this kind of thing, being that I was perpetually hanging around with Celia, I loitered near the door while she browsed.
Outside my window I could see Neil, my former team leader, loitering near the car park entrance.
I loitered in gardens to feast my eyes on the charming grouping of the rhubarb leaves no less than on the exuberance of their flowers, and the leaves of the scorzonera attracted my attention, because they all grew in one plane, but swung about like lances. Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
May 16, 2008 at 9:31 am panhandler kitteh loitering in front of store holds kardbord sien sayin: “why lie, i needs moar nip…lik ur car windoz kleen for a kwarter?” I lost everything - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
He spotted the youths loitering as he walked through a car park. The Sun
A glass-walled elevator arrives; they board, and immediately the lobby floor sinks away, a living mandala of shopping, dining, loitering. THE SAVAGE GIRL
People milled around, nosily loitering and rubbernecking.
It abandons the attempt to detect a class struggle between exploiters and exploited within advanced capitalism.
Out on the sidewalk of Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz's main shopping street, the normal carnival of pedestrians, loiterers, court jesters, fools, and mendicant troubadours milled and mingled on a warm spring afternoon.
He then began accusing Berman's father,, of being a "human molester," "exploiter" and "scoudrel," amongst other things. of Music Paste Magazine
If he loiters, or lollygags, or spits on the sidewalk, bring him in. Brannon's Choice
Fight scenes of bewildering sword combat make conscientious use of the loitering props - chairs, crates and candlesticks are among the wasted haberdashery.
Once, the police arrested him under a bridge as a loiterer. A World Apart: My uncle is a Hare Krishna spiritual master
And a steamer leaves several times a day to take you there, gently and loiteringly, in the Venetian manner, in two hours, with pauses at odd little places _en route_. A Wanderer in Venice
To suggest the patron is an idiot or caveman in many ways lessens the argument of objectification and instead places the stripper in the shoes of the exploiter. Bitterblog
Show business agencies are competing to book celebrities into the May Fair and other hotels in the hope they will be spotted by paparazzi photographers loitering outside. Times, Sunday Times
You must 'exploiter' your sorrow in its length and breadth. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
After the heat and "drouth" we could have loitered in that pleasant shade; but we were due at the Red Lilies "second night out"; and it being one of the unwritten laws of a "nigger-hunt" to keep appointments -- "the other chaps worrying a bit if you don't turn up" -- soon after four o'clock we were out in the blazing heat again, following the river now along its higher flood-bank through grassy plains and open forest land. We of the Never-Never
But before she had time to decide which of the unlively men, loitering round the carriages or helping stout old dowagers up slim iron ladders, was sufficiently lugubrious to be identified as the martyr of the ballot-box, she was absorbed by a tall, masterful figure, whose face had the radiance of easeful success, and whose hands were clapping at some nuance of style which had escaped the palms of the great circular mob. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
For much of the film it is hard to see him as anything but a shallow, pretentious exploiter thinking only of his own pleasure.
By the time Kitty and Billy returned loiteringly from church Mr. Fenelby had progressed pretty well through four of the sixteen sections of the Sunday paper, and Mr.. Fenelby had Bobberts washed and dressed and was in the kitchen preparing dinner, which on Sunday was supposed to be at noon, but which, this Sunday, threatened to be about two o'clock. The Cheerful Smugglers
If one argues the exploitatively-produced good should be banned because admitting it encourages exploitation, one need not worry about past goods, because their present salability does not affect the incentives of present-day would-be exploiters. Bastiat in Fairfax?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He spotted the youths loitering as he walked through a car park. The Sun
I loitered on street corners staring at caterpillars fallen to the sidewalk.
Some vagabond type was seen loitering in the vicinity, so we were scrambled. NIGHT SISTERS
But as residents gather to watch the presidential motorcades speed past, strangely absent will be the hundreds of street children who used to loiter in the city centre, begging and sometimes stealing.
Toutefois, cette situation commence à se modifier et le mouvement ira en s'amplifiant, à la fois parce que la plupart des nouveaux usagers du réseau n'auront pas l'anglais comme langue maternelle et parce que les communautés déjà présentes sur le web accepteront de moins en moins la "dictature" de la langue anglaise et voudront exploiter internet dans leur propre langue, au moins partiellement. Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
It took time for the ground to fill and at first the fans loitered in the shadows. Shahid Afridi's bowling unites Pakistan and Bangladesh in cricket | Andy Bull
In fact, he spends his days driving around, loitering in the foyers of office buildings, and often sleeping in his car at night.
The variable sweep wings are set at 20° for take-off, loitering and landing, and automatically change to a maximum sweep of 68°, which reduces drag for high subsonic to supersonic speeds.
That writer's not an alter ego, though how much she shares with her creator is one of the device's loitering teases.
The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
A long throw from Bailey arrowed on to the head of the giant Ben Futcher loitering on the penalty spot.
So what was he doing loitering outside a branch of his own bank? Times, Sunday Times
It abandons the attempt to detect a class struggle between exploiters and exploited within advanced capitalism.
He is regarded not as the "exploiter," the man grown fat on the labour of others. Appearances Being Notes of Travel
Pitched under the shade of some wide-spreading mangoes are a variety of tents of all sizes, from the handsome and spacious marquee to the snug sleeping tent; near them are picqueted a number of fine-looking Arab horses in prime condition, while the large barouche, which is standing close by, might have just emerged from a coach-house in a London mews; a few servants are loitering about, and give life to this otherwise tranquil scene. A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
Local law prohibited late-night loitering on that hallowed ground, but on the evening of the demonstration the town's selectmen scheduled a meeting to decide whether the rule would be enforced.
The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
Neither dogs nor men loitered before the big store. TOO MUCH GOLD
We have loitered long with Yehuda Halevi, and still not long enough, for we have not yet spoken of his claims to the title philosopher, won for him by his book _Al-Chazari_. Jewish Literature and Other Essays
The most talkative teen loiterer speculates that there will be no more deaths.
Owners of the Hayward dispensaries must now sign off on a host of regulations, including restrictions on the amount of marijuana they may stock, a ban on advertising, and enacting policies to prevent loitering and smoking in or near the dispensaries.
She came at last, loiteringly with Father Pierre and Albert Verheyden. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
With promises of new jobs and rhetorical attacks on "exploiter" foreign investors, Sata, a charismatic former cop turned government minister who left the governing party in 2001 to start his own party, drew huge crowds in poor urban neighborhoods. ANC Daily News Briefing
Is it possible to contract for profit with poor people without being labeled an exploiter?
An hour passed, and a melancholy, earth-coloured Indian loitered up the drive, dressed in a loin-cloth and a salmon-pink pagri on which a washing-basket was balanced. Burmese Days
Though seldom giving much evidence of affection for the exploited, he is perfectly capable of displaying hatred – a sort of queer, theoretical, in vacua hatred – against the exploiters. Matthew Yglesias » The Politeness Reflex
Across the street, the fat man sporting aviator shades and a floppy straw hat loitered behind a calabash tree perusing the Bermuda Sun.
Violence is not the monopoly of the exploiters and as such the exploited can use it too and, moreover, ought to use it when the moment arrives. Che Guevara
The women squatting with their merchandise along the kerbsides become more numerous, the number of hawkers and loiterers crowding the pavements grows larger with every passing step.
So what was he doing loitering outside a branch of his own bank? Times, Sunday Times
He was a generally despicable character, always loitering near his betters like a poisonous cloud, seeking only to advance his own pathetic powers.
I wonder if the police will be loitering outside the church, just in case. Times, Sunday Times
(I wonder if anyone ever yet loitered around a place pretendingly to no purpose without immediately betraying that he was full of purpose.) Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
Mrs. Galland came down the path from the veranda loiteringly, pausing to look at the flowers and again at the sweep of hills and plain. The Last Shot
As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods, and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens: the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche, and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits, that burst all bounds of reason and reflection. Chapter 16
In medieval Poland, Jewish estate stewards were often seen by the peasants as their direct exploiters rather than as the representatives of the feudal lords they really were.
Sukarno went beyond Gandhi to declare war on the foreign exploiters.
Male arrestees charged with minor infractions such as vagrancy, loitering, or traffic violations were excluded from the project.
I loitered in the courtyard watching the moon throw velvet shadows on the ramshackle palace. Exit the Actress
Unemployed young men loiter at the entrance of the factory.
I looked out of the window and could see three men loitering near the shop.
Behind the facade of ‘society,’ there is always a group of power-hungry doctrinaires and exploiters, ready to take your money and to order your actions and your life.
Atop City Hall in Toronto, downtown workers watch butterflies and birds loiter among native plants like bottlebrush grass, eastern columbines, grey-headed coneflowers and New Jersey tea bushes.
Irwin adds that the dangers of arrest or bashing from loitering in public places also do not exist while on the Internet.
An even more interesting possibility is that they were not merely actors but nimbly planning ones who schemed to exploit their would-be exploiters.
Some vagabond type was seen loitering in the vicinity, so we were scrambled. NIGHT SISTERS
It belongs to a friendly, middle-aged man loitering in his garden. Times, Sunday Times
War was manifestly drawing nearer, in Eastern Asia, in Eastern Europe; it loitered, it advanced, it halted, and no one displayed the vigour or capacity needed to avert its intermittent, unhurrying approach. The Shape of Things to Come
It will be very difficult to destroy the school centers which we are not putting up; it will be very difficult to convert these schools back into fortresses; it will be very difficult to make the men and children we are teaching now into brutal individuals; it will be very difficult to eliminate the 10,000 classrooms which we have created; it will be very difficult to take all of this away from our mountaineers, way out in the mountains, it will be very difficult to deprive them of the teachers whom we have sent and, in return, send them a tax collector or some other kind of exploiter; it will be very difficult to deprive the farmers of their land and to force them to pay rent once again, to force them to pay 20% or 30% of their harvest, in kind; it will be very difficult to take a portion of their price away on the market; it will be difficult to destroy their cooperatives and their settlements; it will be very difficult to return the factories and the refineries which we have nationalized to the electric power trust or to the telephone company trust or to the petroleum trust. SPEECH AT FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MUNICIPAL E
They perhaps had one slight doubt: who were all those people loitering outside? Times, Sunday Times
The Dubliner had been loitering in football's equivalent of purgatory since his high-profile sacking from Leeds United in June 2002.
The film opens with a tableaux of a grimy industrial area where a man loiters impassively, slouching against a wall, kicking a bottle down the street, watching the wind whip up dust devils on a vacant patch of gravel.
Though seldom giving much evidence of affection for the exploited, he is perfectly capable of displaying hatreda sort of queer, theoretical, in vacua hatredagainst the exploiters. The Road to Wigan Pier
Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. Beard
The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
Bright red blue-lined squirrelfish loiter, thinking they're unseen, in every shadowy overhang, while even redder soldierfish stay well inside the caverns.
One option may be to play classical music at the station in a bid to deter loiterers.
Human history has remained the chronology of struggles between master and servant, have and have nots, between capitalists and proletariats, exploiter and exploited.
You're standing here loitering about in a very suspicious manner.
To the right, a few guests loitered about on the Grand Balcony, but Brydon saw no guards. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
They look for odd or suspicious behavior: heavy clothes on a hot day, loiterers without luggage, anyone observing security methods.
Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. Beard
Nor, it should be remembered, did the older European imperialists consider themselves exploiters.
Show business agencies are competing to book celebrities into the May Fair and other hotels in the hope they will be spotted by paparazzi photographers loitering outside. Times, Sunday Times
My only other complaint was the over-attentive waiters, who always seemed to be loitering somewhere nearby, waiting for something to happen or checking that everything was fine.
But as the school broke up, and Tom Green was seen loitering on the other side of the road, every thing was forgotten in the general desire to see Jan carry out his threat, and "whop" a boy bigger than himself for bullying a little girl. Jan of the Windmill
This is a drive to loiter over, a spot or series of spots to invest a fine day in.
A) -- Meade states that in late 1958 and early 1959, following his expulsion from the Top Hoodlum Program, Littell "loitered" near the TEP listening post and expressed interest in the squad's work. American Tabloid
Finally I had my chance, with Freddie loitering around the corals below me, gurning for all he was worth.
There are no groupies loitering and Frank's partner, Gail, is overseeing the tea pouring. Cucumber sandwiches with Frank Zappa
On his own, with few big-time allies and nearly penniless, Truman whistle-stopped across the country from Labor Day to election eve, castigating the Republicans as the selfish exploiters of everyday Americans. Ed Kosner: A Little Touch of Harry
It loiters subsonically at very high altitudes over the region of interest for extended periods of time without refueling.
On the extreme left, a featureless female sits at a table; another loiters outside on the right.
Shoals of saddled bream and horse mackerel loitered mid-water.
A gang of youths were loitering outside the cinema.
Whereas dubstep tended to loiter without much palpable intent, Grime has an implacable Terminator-focus, a stalker's unwavering sense of purpose.
The girl loitered on her way home.
I presume it was the acoustic mix of ‘Insania’, but I didn't hang around to find out, preferring instead to loiter about the deserted cafe and eavesdrop on the celebrity chit-chat.
I wonder if the police will be loitering outside the church, just in case. Times, Sunday Times
It took me five minutes to spot two huge men, loitering in a darkened corner, away from the road. Times, Sunday Times
I wonder if the police will be loitering outside the church, just in case. Times, Sunday Times
A diminutive figure loiters at the back of the gallery.
Be especially aware of strangers loitering around ATMs this time of year.

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