dawdle

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

When you’re moving tons of food at the edge of its usefulness — an average of 250,000 pounds or 125 tons every day — no one can afford to dawdle.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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

A bouncy strut, a dart-and-weave, a dawdle with a dog.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

Even if the voice over the intercom releases us like nothing happened, is she going to dawdle back over to the whiteboard and continue adding to the topic list?

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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

The Colonel blinks and twitches his nose, and the thing dawdles on.

From At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

The ship dawdled for weeks, racking up bills, until a different harbor admitted it, according to the filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

In the 71st minute, off quick ball, with excellent field position and Murley lurking wide, Seb Atkinson similarly dawdled too long and had his kick blocked.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

Students dawdled in their first period classes with cameras off, waiting for teachers who had not been able to log in.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

So he dawdled until he came to the picket fence, and every day Mrs. Cobb was standing at the door waiting for him, scowling and sour.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

"The film has a few scattered giggles, but it's dawdling and cumbersome, and far less 'relevant' than it thinks," read a review from the Hollywood trade publication Variety.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

“Tastes very good, yes? Quit dawdling, Monkey. I’m garbage at chess.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri