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Synonyms: Verb
bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about [British], idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loll, lounge, veg out
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slicing a loaf of breadVerb
I spent most of the weekend just loafing around the house. the kind of sultry August afternoon that makes you just want to loaf
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In 2014 Louis Albright, an emeritus professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University in America, calculated that a loaf of bread made from wheat grown in a vertical farm would be priced at about $23. — The Economist, "New ways to make vertical farming stack up," 29 Aug. 2019 One bushel of wheat will make an average of 70 loaves of bread, said Suderman, with the national average price per bushel at $4.32. — Anneken Tappe, CNN, "American corn farmers are having their worst year in recent history," 28 June 2019 Whir some beans together to get a homey spread to smear over a good quality loaf of your favorite bread. — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, "Snack your way to dinner with these 8 recipes," 22 Aug. 2019 Bread Grab a loaf a few days before Thanksgiving to make your own bread crumbs. — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, "The Only Thanksgiving Shopping List You'll Ever Need," 7 Aug. 2019 Among others, the trove features olives, eggs, figs, carob, almonds, lentils and a loaf of bread sliced into eight pieces. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "From Baked Dormouse to Carbonized Bread, 300 Artifacts Show What Romans Ate," 27 July 2019 Bread knife: Usually 8 to 12 inches long and about an inch wide with a serrated edge, these knives were, as the name suggests, designed for slicing through crusty loaves of bread. — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, "Our guide to knives will give you an edge in the kitchen," 10 July 2019 No word if loaves of marble rye, chocolate babkas, muffin tops, or big salads are on the sales list. — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, "Celebrate 30 years of the show about nothing at the Seinfeld Experience," 27 June 2019 What is the proper way to cut a bagel: in half horizontally or like a loaf of bread? — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, "Twitter will label tweets from Trump, world leaders who break the platform's rules," 27 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Quilted Hammock, $250, pawleysislandhammocks.com A father is entitled to loaf around the house in his holey college hoodie. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, "11 Gifts to Help Dad Relax This Father’s Day," 6 June 2018 Sport mode overcomes much of the conservativeness, but the transmission’s fuzzy logic to adapt to the driver’s performance style can be frustratingly slow to wake up and deliver evasive power after loafing along. — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, "2019 Volkswagen Jetta: 7th generation wide-body reboot," 6 July 2018 For years, hundreds of California sea lions have colonized the docks in the Oregon port town of Astoria, their loafing brown bodies serving as both a tourist attraction and a nuisance begrudgingly tolerated by officials. — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, "One state’s plan to save a protected species is to kill another species," 11 June 2018 There’s concern about people loafing while on government assistance. — Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg.com, "Trump Voters Would Be Hit Hardest by GOP’s Food Stamp Work Rules," 10 May 2018 Such loafing on the job following the time change suggests that people are less productive when mildly sleep deprived due to the time change. — David Wagner, chicagotribune.com, "The dark side of daylight saving time," 9 Mar. 2018 The main focus is on two middle-aged brothers in the large Denetclaw family: Wesley (James Coleman), a loafing alcoholic, and the long-sober Raymond (Rod Rondeaux). — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Land': Film Review | Berlin 2018," 2 Mar. 2018 Levine’s team recruited 53 middle-aged volunteers aged 45 to 64 who admitted to loafing around a lot, and put them on an exercise regime. — Maggie Fox, NBC News, "Regular exercise takes off years of laziness, study finds," 8 Jan. 2018 In other words, subjects responded to the suddenly-more-difficult run by doing a corresponding amount of loafing. — Jay Willis, GQ, "Do Ankle Weights Make You a Stronger Runner?," 1 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'loaf.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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