dawdle
verb (used without object)
to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter.
are dawdling
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present progressiveof dawdle.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The lack of movement on school funding raises the most questions about whether lawmakers are dawdling too much.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
We are dawdling our time away very idly and pleasantly, at a Mrs. Leishman's, Chace, Enfield, where, if you come a-hunting, we can give you cold meat and a tankard.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
The young ladies are dawdling in dressing-gowns over a bedroom breakfast, and exchanging mutual sarcasms and recriminations, blended with gall and bitterness flung back on last night’s party.
From Nearly Lost but Dearly Won by Wilson, Theodore P.
We are dawdling along thirty miles a day through Burgundy, sick to death of the bare vine-stakes, and longing to see a festooned vineyard of Lombardy.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
Ruth and Peter are dawdling along, each on their own; I like to shoot through a gallery.
From The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts by Fitch, Clyde
