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
I could sail a ship across the Atlantic while you are dawdling here.
From The End of the Rainbow by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
They are dawdling and dulcified to a deplorable degree.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
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 Clyde Fitch
The horses are dawdling home to the farm.
From Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley
