How to Use loll in a Sentence

loll

verb

• She was lolling by the pool.
• Her head was lolling to one side.
• He lolled about in his pajamas all day.
• One lolls on the rocks; the other holds two dead kid goats.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• But unlike most of us, the Hadza do not loll in chairs.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• Children kick balls around, and a few scrawny dogs loll in the shade.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• His tongued lolled out of his mouth and his eyes remained open.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• Hough recorded video of the bear lolling in the unheated hot tub with the jets on.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2018
• The lion’s tongue was lolling out of its mouth, from which a few drops of viscous blood had spilled to the ground.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Its guts fall out with a splat on the floor, its tongue lolling out of its head, dead eyes staring.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
• My dog perks up in the passenger seat, tongue lolling out of her mouth, head cocked.
  — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
• For most of the warm part of the afternoon, the mercury lolled about in the middle or upper 80s.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Strollers lolled under the soft lights of street lamps, bars spilled over with patrons.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• One’s tongue lolls out; the other’s mouth is zippered shut.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• The smallest one’s head is lolled back, its mouth slightly agape.
  — Allyson Chiu, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Its head lolls onto her chest, breath whistling through its teeth.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Not that the trout, lolling in a shady mountain creek southwest of Colorado Springs, had a choice.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• In late June, the cones haven’t yet dropped, but a few, the size of mangoes and faded from the sun, loll around beneath their trees.
  — Leslie Pariseau, Saveur, 18 Sep. 2017
• At one beach, a friendly young couple lolled on a pair of inner tubes a few feet from shore.
  — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
• After a snorkel session exploring the healthy reefs, most of our group lolled in the shallows for a dip.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Adding a grinning dog, tongue lolling out, will make your snapshots much more likely to get likes.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 2 Jan. 2024
• The bears, with their tongues lolling, seem to be either salivating or panting.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Ten plump mussels lolled in a marinade with a red-siren glow that reminded me of Sichuan chile oil.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• The incredible video as shot from a tour ship after the three humpback whales spent some time near the boat, lolling around.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• The women sat on the earth making maize balls, dogs lolled in the first sun and in distance was that unique sound of India: the woo-woo of the train slowing for cows on the line.
  — Victoria Mather, A-LIST, 20 June 2018
• Some houses exist to serve as a respite for the residents, a place where those who live there can put their feet up and loll about.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 6 Apr. 2018
• Visitors to Gary’s Marquette Park will soon have more to do than just loll around at the beach and gaze at the Chicago skyline.
  — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
• Elsewhere there is richness upon richness, hunks of crispy pork belly striped with cashew cream, the fat lolling on the tongue.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2016
• Red elastic bands loll from pegs in the cinderblock like exhausted tongues.
  — Adam Kuhlmann, Longreads, 15 Apr. 2020
• Each room was a different scene: Models lolled in bed, read in the bathtub, argued in the kitchen corner.
  — Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024