1. The couple enjoys lounging about the streets at weekends.

2. Whales have been lounging about and eating plankton for some fifty million years.

3. Stockings and petticoats, discarded for the wash, lounged about in here, flung over the back of a carved armchair.

4. If there was work to do, you did it, with no lounging about.

5. I don't want to lounge about town.

6. If I wanted to lounge about, I could have done it in my garden.

7. I don't want to lounge about town. I have other things to do.

8. We miss the headlines, staggering into the back of the television lounge about five minutes after the news starts.

9. Our interview came to the halt in the afternoon and Ms Xu accompanied us out of the hotel. Before leaving the executive lounge, she apologized to guests in the lounge about the interview.