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• The tendency of the nervous horse to loll his tongue can often be cured by the use of the "tongue-lolling bit."From the entry tongue-lolling bit
• Her golden eyes were intent, and her tongue lolled out in a wolfly smile.2005, David Eddings, The Malloreon Volume Two, page 380. From the entry wolfly
• He always had two strongarm men lolling around in an office down the passage.2000, James Hadley Chase, An Ear to the Ground. From the entry alarm bell
• Especially if the fringe of an antimacassar lolled over the top and tickled your neck?1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small. From the entry antimacassar
• The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry wolf dog
• And the inhabitant of Ulverton doth loll fleshly abed.1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1994, page 24. From the entry fleshly
• She slumped backward against her chair, her head lolling sideways.1990, Mollie Ashton, Terms of Surrender, page 147. From the entry waaater
• Gather shells, loll on the oily stones.1985, Margaret Atwood, “Jezebel’s”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry winding
• These new details gave meridiennes the opportunity of gliding right into the 20th century as choice lolling spots.1984, Dan D’Imperio, Flea Market Treasure, TAB Books Inc., →ISBN, page 193. From the entry meridienne
• His head lolled back, his mask had been ripped away, but he was fighting bravely to retain consciousness.1967, Brian W. Aldiss, “The Night That All Time Broke Out”, in Harlan Ellison, editor, Dangerous Visions, New York: Doubleday & Company…. From the entry terranaut
• The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 25. From the entry tread
• By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.2011 February 21, Eilidh Nisbet, “February 1951”, in Giddy Old School: The Diary of a Swot 1948 to 1951, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire…. From the entry by rights
• He’d had visions of lolling back at his ease while the entire female work force of Scotland Yard paraded past his totally unlickerish gaze.1976, Joyce Porter, chapter 7, in Dover and the Claret Tappers, page 85. From the entry unlickerish
• She chased pinecones down a sunlit snowbank and then collapsed on her side, tongue lolling, and rolled on her back in a wolfy version of a snow angel.2012, Ceiridwen Terrill, Part Wild: Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs, page 135. From the entry wolfy
• The grown-ups were lolling around on the porch and in the yard, finger snapping and foot tapping while Samuel played "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on his five-string banjo.2011, Jenny Wingfield, chapter 12, in The Homecoming of Samuel Lake […], trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published…. From the entry breakdown
• "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88. From the entry doating
• She tried to grab some branches of brush and pull her face forward into their wet rootiness, but the tongs grabbed her until she was numb, and she lolled over.1986, Lella Warren, Foundation Stone, page 296. From the entry rootiness
• That night the whisky was unstoppered and Bradly lolled in bed, smoking, and betimes sweeping out an arm of conquest for his nobbler and taking a lordly pull at it.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 57. From the entry lordly

Meaning of loll

1. verb To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
2. verb To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
3. verb To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth.

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How do you use loll in a sentence?

Loll is used as a verb. For example: “The ox stood lolling in the furrow.”

What is a short sentence with loll?

“Gather shells, loll on the oily stones.”

What does loll mean?

Loll means to act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.