(v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
(v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither in nor out of the house, visible but not seen, you could lurk here for an hour undisturbed, you could loiter for a day.
(2) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(3) Grafitti cakes his entrance hall, there is no heating, the lift has been broken for months and unemployed youths loiter with nothing to do.
(4) She wouldn't be found haunting the scene of the crime, as it were; loitering in the kitchen, in the maternity ward, at the school gate.
(5) As he puts it in his book Cities Under Siege: "The possibility of deploying swarms of armed and unarmed robots to loiter persistently across regions of the world deemed trouble spots is clearly a good fit with the Pentagon's latest thinking surrounding the long war."
(6) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
(7) Deborah Kerr's screen name had loitered for a dozen years somewhere in the back of my brain.
(8) This game had ambled along cagily for almost half an hour, Uruguay tigerishly setting about stifling any hint of Colombian ascendancy, when Abel Aguilar nodded the ball forward to Rodríguez, loitering with his back to goal in a pocket of space just outside the Uruguay penalty area.
(9) 2.27am BST Ringside Kevin Mitchell in Las Vegas writes: Although there is a lot of loitering still, this terrific arena already has given Ashley Theophane his biggest audience, maybe half of the 16,000 capacity.
(10) Shani Pinney, a department official, said on Monday that such offenders were barred from working or volunteering in schools and from “loitering on school property”.
(11) It was barely disrupted when Darmian – who had at times looked a weak link after loitering in possession – dislocated a shoulder after challenging for a 50-50 ball with Khazri and was replaced by Donald Love, a Scotland Under-21 international.
(12) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
(13) Analyses by five major diagnostic groups showed that patients with a primary diagnosis of drug or alcohol abuse had the greatest overall frequency of arrests and also the greatest frequency of arrests for burglary, offenses against public order such as peace disturbance or loitering, and probation and parole violations.
(14) As conditions are made safe for these blithe cretins they become more dangerous for Sherpas, whose job is to loiter in the dangerous parts of the mountain and secure them for ever greater numbers of incompetents to hurry through, en route to their photographs on the top of the world.
(15) "This guy is making me lose my concentration," he complains later as another man loiters nearby.
(16) In the suburb of Wilberforce, in an old building for the telecommunications company Airtel, a dozen students loiter on a wall waiting to relieve staff from the trauma at the Ebola hotline they are manning.
(17) Father Toño, who moved here from Madrid 14 years ago, chats over coffee while his guards – whose presence is the result of death threats from drug traffickers – loiter outside.
(18) While protest charges have typically been seen as tantamount to nuisance crimes, like trespassing or loitering, these were different.
(19) A berry meringue roulade to whip sad whites into shape and a thick, sharp lemon curd to save the souls of any feckless yolks left loitering about your fridge.
(20) Time to loiter in bookshops and catch a nice boy's eye over a copy of Patti Smith's autobiography?
Looter
Definition:
(n.) A plunderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
(2) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(3) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
(4) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam’s Meat Market & More employee Steve Sumad surveys damage caused by looters.
(6) At the beginning he named us ‘terrorists’ and ‘looters’.
(7) But it was unclear if Arinç's conciliatory remarks had the blessing of Erdogan, who has previously dismissed the protesters as "looters" and fringe extremists.
(8) Dozens of police officers dressed in riot gear, some holding assault rifles, started filing in more than two hours before midnight, lining the street and guarding store fronts from potential looters.
(9) Occasionally, French and African peacekeepers entered the neighbourhood and fired in the air to disperse the looters, but they usually quickly returned as the peacekeepers were leaving."
(10) The prime minister's remarks were less abrasive than his comments earlier this week when he branded his critics as looters and fringe extremists.
(11) With Iraqi police still absent from their posts - those at the museum fled as the looters arrived - the US remains the only potential policing presence in the city.
(12) He was fed up with the rioters and the looters and he was determined that they would not destroy our community."
(13) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
(14) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
(15) Soldiers intervened to stop looters at a huge supermarket in Ariana, 20 miles north of the capital, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
(16) A female officer – part of a small team of mostly community support officers with no riot kit or training, who successfully defended local shop owners against looters – admitted to feeling fear before going on duty and said: "My dad had to talk me into it."
(17) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
(18) The looters sabotaged not just property but the community’s peaceful protests, he said.
(19) With no intervention from police at all, and looters in control of the area for around three hours, it was left to residents to intervene.
(20) Fosso's housekeeper was still there trying to protect the house and studio from looters.