dawdle

How to use dawdle in a sentence

• In the past, a school might have dawdled in making a decision about a self-imposed ban or an appeal, but it wasn’t shocking when it eventually accepted a penalty.

  NCAA tournament bracketology: Oklahoma State will probably make it despite its postseason ban | Patrick Stevens | January 26, 2021 | Washington Post

• Traveling across the isle on foot without dashing is unappealing since large areas of the environment look rather plain, giving scant reason to dawdle.

  ‘The Pathless’: Less than the sum of its parts | Christopher Byrd | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post

• But the small boy who was unwillingly dawdling through a series of poses for it, to-day refused all bribes to be good.

  Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• I knew that the poor girl from Kansas must get up with the sun, too, for her uncle was not the man to brook any dawdling.

  The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson Lloyd

• "I always make it a point to be punctual," Lamb dawdling in the background, overheard him say.

  Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 | Various