LOITERING

Traducere în limba română

loitering adjectiv

zăbovitor; trândav, lenevos.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I had observed Henderson and Smoke loitering about the deck all morning, and I now learned why they were there.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

No, no, we should have him loitering here always.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did you ask her whether in leaving she met any one or saw any one loitering about Charles Street?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After attending Louisa through her business, and loitering about a little longer, they returned to the inn; and Anne, in passing afterwards quickly from her own chamber to their dining-room, had nearly run against the very same gentleman, as he came out of an adjoining apartment.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

The dry-goods stores were not down among the counting-houses, banks, and wholesale warerooms, where gentlemen most do congregate, but Jo found herself in that part of the city before she did a single errand, loitering along as if waiting for someone, examining engineering instruments in one window and samples of wool in another, with most unfeminine interest, tumbling over barrels, being half-smothered by descending bales, and hustled unceremoniously by busy men who looked as if they wondered 'how the deuce she got there'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Towards the end of the morning, however, Catherine, having occasion for some indispensable yard of ribbon which must be bought without a moment's delay, walked out into the town, and in Bond Street overtook the second Miss Thorpe as she was loitering towards Edgar's Buildings between two of the sweetest girls in the world, who had been her dear friends all the morning.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I arrived at the office so soon, after all, that I had half an hour's loitering about the Commons, before old Tiffey, who was always first, appeared with his key.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I had been out, one day, loitering somewhere, in the listless, meditative manner that my way of life engendered, when, turning the corner of a lane near our house, I came upon Mr. Murdstone walking with a gentleman.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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