Verb (used without object) : to loll on a sofa. ,The dog stood in the heat with his tongue lolling out of his mouth. From Dictionary.com.
A pensive fountain lolling on a rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Reviewed] Reference
"It's just kind of lolling around," she said over her wrist phone. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The Kanakas were lolling below in the sun, and Bob woke them sharply. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Shark] Reference
I have sat and watched Ideala lolling at an open window in the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The Wildcat's jaw sagged open as far as the roots of his lolling tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
It is like a comma, she is right: its squiggle ofabody, its lolling head. From Wordnik.com. [Hilary Mantel Comma] Reference
She was lolling on her carpet as I entered, with her attendants around her. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
There was always a few shuffling, dull-eyed people lolling about in the dusty heat. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Alliance] Reference
As they went on they saw women working in the fields, and men lolling on the fences. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
He always pulls in and pulls out, and my tongue is lolling waiting for him to decide. From Wordnik.com. [Still Life in a Bowl] Reference
How pallid and ugly they looked with their mouths open and their heads lolling forward!. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
The baths are a social event, and some women spend hours lolling about in the hot steam. From Wordnik.com. [What's Right With Russia] Reference
Bulldozers waited nearby, silent and ominous, their metal tongues lolling on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [To Make Way for the Future] Reference
Others describe them as gaunt, dark beasts with huge white fangs and lolling red tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway] Reference
Meantime I had been taking it easy, lolling on the ground, my horse beside me with bridle down. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
He found the poor bird looking the picture of misery, lolling limply against the cushioned seat. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
It was Nalik'ideyu who sought out Travis now, her red tongue lolling from her mouth as she panted. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
"Guess again!" drawled the older of two strange boys, lolling on suitcases in the middle of the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
And with our children beginning to resemble an army of tiny, lolling Michelin men, that's a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Just can't swallow the anti-chocolate milk argument] Reference
It had a ludicrously drunken look, as though it were lolling up against the wall -- like a staircase in. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
On one is carved a man's head with swollen face, another with a lolling tongue, and similar grotesques. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
He was weakened, sapped of strength, so that he hung in his bounds, his head lolling forward on his breast. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
She is always compassionate and hopeful, with her ears pricked up, her eyes bright, her pink tongue lolling. From Wordnik.com. [9/11 Memories] Reference
Passengers sat or stood in a daze, heads lolling this way and that with the motion of the train, eyes glazed. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
From his palm, his mother stared at him, bat black, pearl white, breasts lolling, that big! on her chest. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
And, in fact, the bear was shuffling down the hall, his head lolling from side to side, and his red tongue hanging out. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference
But visitors lolling in the island's crystalline water are blissfully unaware that they've crossed paths with Captain Kidd. From Wordnik.com. [Yar, Mate! Swashbuckler Tours!] Reference
"I ask myself, how much poverty is there, really, in the country?" said a dentist lolling poolside at the Petionville Club. From Wordnik.com. [Haiti: 'We Could Turn Our Back'] Reference
He orders another bourbon from the bartender who is leaning on the bar grinning, his head lolling as he sings to Neil Diamond. From Wordnik.com. [At the Bar] Reference
Molly was in her chair, with her head lolling over the back, as if it were a guillotine, her huge mouth wide open, fast asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
They can afford to take only a few days or weeks off at a time -- not an entire summer lolling on the Riviera with fellow socialites. From Wordnik.com. [IN SEARCH OF PRIVACY] Reference
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