Example Sentences

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"The one you so kindly found for me?" he asked, procrastinatingly.

From Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr

Seeing the trouble in the embryo, the government procrastinatingly made some amendments to the Labor Act.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

"We are going to have a discouraging meal," I gossiped procrastinatingly.

From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk

My dear Hooker, I am no better than a Gadarene swine for not writing to you from the Maloja, but I was too procrastinatingly lazy to expend even that amount of energy.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard