Example Sentences

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Procrastinating Hill calls procrastination one of the most common causes of failure: “Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the ‘time to be right’ to start doing something worthwhile.

From Time • Dec. 8, 2015

Procrastinating holiday shoppers can now grab one of Miami’s most iconic two-seaters: the all-white 1986 Ferrari Testarossa driven by TV cops "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs in the hit 1980s series "Miami Vice."

From Reuters • Dec. 24, 2014

According to Joseph R. Ferrari, Ph.D., of DePaul University, procrastination researcher and author of the book Still Procrastinating?

From Forbes • Dec. 11, 2012

I have been trying not to procrastinate by hunting, online, for lists of Ways To Stop Procrastinating.

From Washington Post

Procrastinating, timid, false, he was not the man to deal with serious abuses.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved