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Example sentences for "lounge"

Lexicographically close words:
loughs; louing; louinge; louingly; loun; lounged; lounger; loungers; lounges; lounging
  1. And yet he did not lounge round a liquor saloon, and the minister was glad, and not sorry, that he sung in the choir.

  2. Every morning he worked in his study for two hours, and she "stepped round" for an hour, and then lay on the lounge for an hour, reading by herself.

  3. Now, as he flung himself wearily down on the lounge for a bit of rest, he became conscious of the muffled b-r-r-r of a dynamo.

  4. When Cabot threw himself down on that lounge he fully intended to remain awake, or at most to take only a series of short naps, always holding himself in readiness to assist the sufferer on the opposite side of the room.

  5. Why, Rosalind runs under the lounge the very minute any Babcock, big or small, sets foot inside the door.

  6. I was on the lounge in the alcove parlor, my hair half streaming out of Lu's net; but he didn't mind.

  7. After the performances are over, they generally lounge into some favourite coffee-house, and then close the day to recommence another, following much the same course, with some trifling variation.

  8. Lanyard wasn't really sorry; the bosom of a white shirt is calculated to make some impression upon the human retina even on the darkest night; whereas his plain lounge suit of blue serge was sure to prove entirely inconspicuous.

  9. Most of the chairs were of the overstuffed lounge sort.

  10. I shall cease to be respectable if I lounge any longer than is absolutely necessary to restore my health.

  11. Up to the last she went into society, and she died in full dress, diamonds and all, in a glare of light, on a lounge in her dressing-room.

  12. About this time Lato sprained his ankle in leaping a ditch, and was confined for some days to a lounge in the dining-room.

  13. As he entered the pretty room, a lady rose from a low lounge and came towards him with outstretched hands.

  14. At one place where I had an engagement to change cars, we had a wait of four hours, and I reclined on a hair-cloth lounge at the hotel, with the intention of sleeping a part of the time.

  15. Dear, patient reader, did you every try to ride a refractory hair-cloth lounge all night, bare back?

  16. I got so that I could rise off the floor and climb on the lounge without waking up.

  17. And then you lay down upon the lounge to snatch a few minutes of repose?

  18. I will steal a little rest upon the lounge when Lora gets composed to sleep again.

  19. There her sister persuaded her to lie down upon a lounge while she hovered about her, rendering numberless gentle little attentions, and talking to her in soft, soothing tones.

  20. Her position was not an easy one, and wheeling the lounge to the fire Morris brought a pillow from his sleeping room adjoining, and taking Katy in his arms laid her where she would at least be more comfortable than in the chair.

  21. Standing by one of these windows is a light-haired young man of thirty in a lounge suit of dark blue.

  22. Captain Pring came into the lounge some idiot started to cheer, and there was what the papers describe as a "scene.

  23. He wore gold pince-nez, a neat blue lounge suit and brown boots.

  24. There was a leather lounge wheeled up before a large fire, and thereon the injured gentleman was laid.

  25. As Patricia entered, the lounge seemed suddenly to empty its contents into the hall.

  26. If she went into the lounge on her return from Eaton Square, the same effect was noticeable.

  27. In the lounge Patricia soon became the centre of a group anxious for information; but no one was daring enough to put direct questions to her.

  28. It had been Patricia's intention to go by bus but at the entrance of the lounge she saw Gustave who ingratiatingly enquired, "Taxi, mees?

  29. With a murmured apology to Mrs. Morton she rose from the table and went into the lounge where she wrote the reply: "Regret impossible remember your promise," then she paused.

  30. The atmosphere of the lounge was one of nervous tension.

  31. As Bowen swung the car round, Patricia was conscious that at the drawing-room and lounge windows Galvin House was heavily massed.

  32. After breakfast he added a fez and a British cigar to his equipment, and retired to the lounge to read Lloyd's News.

  33. For an hour the two sat in the lounge below, talking and listening to the band.

  34. She entered the lounge at the foot of the stairs with increased confidence, and she was conscious that several men turned to look at her with interest.

  35. As Bowen was replying to Gustave in coin, Mrs. Craske-Morton appeared at the head of the stairs on her way down to the lounge after her tactful absence.

  36. When she entered the lounge it was twenty minutes to eight and, although dinner was at seven-thirty, the room was full.

  37. In the lounge a quarter of an hour later, Gustave once more approached Patricia, this time with a note.

  38. Tis well for sleek cits for to lounge on their soffies, And chat about "Law and Order," an' sich.

  39. Some lounge lizards may speculate on the nature of the sentiments this grateful princess will reveal if I display sufficient ingenuity to save us all from this slowly approaching DEATH!

  40. A kind of cafe-billard supplies a lounge and tepid beer.

  41. A narrow causeway connects with the gate, where blacks on guard lounge in fantastic uniform, and below the works are the coal-sheds.

  42. Mind became so dull I gave up reading and lay upon the lounge (third day).

  43. While on the lounge the muscles of the leg were suddenly contracted, jerking up the foot as in stepping; in a moment the right one performed the same manoeuvre (third day), 1.

  44. People wishing to become purchasers lounge up and down until they see a subject likely to suit their purpose.

  45. Long hours of brooding among the red plush settees in the lounge of the Hotel Magnificent at Bingley-on-the-Sea had brought about this strange, even morbid, attitude of mind in Samuel Marlowe.

  46. On the lounge beside her, swathed in a business-like grey kimono, Jane Hubbard watched her, smoking a cigarette.

  47. Ladies in furs, and gemmen in spurs, Who lollop and lounge about all day: The Bazaar in Soho is completely the go-- Walk into the shop of Grimaldi!

  48. No man can lounge who doesn't know what to do with his hands.

  49. Grey placed Salome on a lounge near the window, and sprinkled her face with water.

  50. One or two of these would saunter up to Haytersbank on a Sunday afternoon, and lounge round his fields with the old farmer.

  51. He was tired from his long day's travel but little inclination to sleep came to him, and stretching himself out on the lounge with his head and shoulders bolstered up with furs, he continued to smoke and think.

  52. Suddenly he turned back to the lounge and belted on his revolver and holster.

  53. It followed, quite in the order of things, therefore, that the three of them should agree to meet in the lounge after dinner and take their coffee together.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lounge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bar; barroom; bed; bum; casual; couch; crawl; dawdle; diddle; dive; drone; greenroom; grovel; idle; lay; laze; lazy; lie; loaf; loiter; loll; lounge; mooch; moon; parlor; recline; repose; rest; sit; slouch; sofa; sprawl; stand