dawdle

As Californians dawdle about casting ballots before Tuesday’s primary, the leading candidates hoping to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom crisscrossed the state making their closing arguments to voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

She has set a six-minute daily time limit as a reminder not to dawdle on Instagram.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

If a few passengers dawdle while stowing their bag and finding their seat, it can make the difference between a flight being on time or late in the government’s official statistics.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

And while there's still a need for a similarly big player to volumize Kernza sales, smaller companies can keep farmers growing the crop while consumer packaged goods companies dawdle on the sidelines.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023

I dawdle outside the bathroom until the Candor man walks out, and then walk in before the door has a chance to shut properly.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

If Minnesota dawdles, it “will rack up $1 billion of deferred payments this year,” the CMS head said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

It is the role of prosecutors to vindicate that interest by initiating judicial action when a defendant dawdles.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2024

Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021

Fortunately, there is plenty of music to divert us when the dialogue dawdles.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016

He doesn't read, and he doesn't study; he just dawdles around, and calls on the girls, and talks with them by the hour.

From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris

Later, at Brasserie de Monaco, the principality’s craft beer brewery, I dawdled over a pint of Blonde de Monaco and fell into conversation with Nils, a Danish skipper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

It also raised further questions as to why England dawdled on his selection for so long.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

When the horses eventually broke from the gate, Zenyatta, as usual, dawdled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

When No. 23 WSU hosts Northern Colorado this weekend, though, the Cougars will get a chance to sharpen the one part of their offense that has dawdled: The run game.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

They grumbled and dawdled a while longer, but pretty soon we were on our way, this time with Worm tagging along.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Cut a dawdling fight scene here and an interminable escape scene there, and the film would make a delightful in-universe companion to precede next summer’s “Superman” sequel, “Man of Tomorrow.”

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Like, just in case someone’s dawdling, or being careless about where they’re dumping snow.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

Then again, all the bickering, dawdling, and reliably self-preserving ignorance toward the catastrophe nipping at their heels is the point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024

Havertz initially looked well offside until a glance revealed the dawdling veteran playing him on, leaving Trossard the grateful beneficiary.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

Close enough to tell me I should stop dawdling and get to work.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson