Object

• time: The aircraft will also give the RAF an increased range of operations of over 6,000 miles and fourteen hours loiter time without refueling.

Preposition: on

• corner: Others loiter on street corners intimidating passers-by or cruise the streets in souped-up cars.

• street: Providing participants with somewhere to go and with something constructive to do with their spare time other than loiter on the streets.

Preposition: at

• back: Phil, high on DSMB fumes starts to loiter at the back of the boat.

Preposition: outside

• shop: The kids couldn't stand it so stopped loitering outside the shop.

Modifying Another Word

• palely: And this why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Tho the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.

• about: Strangers loitering about could be harmless; on the other hand they may be up to no good.

• not: At any rate, let us not loiter in the arena of hot events.

• no: People habitually ignore signs saying: no parking, no smoking, or no loitering.

• then: He coaled his ships and then loitered in the Pacific whilst he decided what to do next.

• nearby: Over 100 crocodiles were loitering nearby, kept at bay by two other hippos standing guard either side of their dead companion.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: If you see someone loitering around your vehicle, walk past until they leave.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: We teachers resented the time we had to loiter around the school just in case a student walked in off the street.

• down: This morning, we were tantalizingly closer to the mountains, but there were clouds already loitering down the valley.

Used with why or when

• where: They would loiter where is now the Godiva statue.

Preposition: in

• street: The Auld Licht, however, who meant marriage seldom loitered in the streets.

• area: Do not loiter in the area around the little roundabout at the front of the School.

• front: It was used outside Welsh convenience stores to stop teenagers from loitering in front of the entrances.

• midair: He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down.

Preposition: with

• intent: He went on to explain how the streets outside his union offices in Delhi are always cleared of anyone loitering with political intent.