dawdling
Example Sentences
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Like, just in case someone’s dawdling, or being careless about where they’re dumping snow.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
Wearing an electric blue jacket emblazoned with the words “Tell Your Dog I Said Hi,” she crouches low to film a dawdling old pug named Jojo with her iPhone.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024
After Black Rod — Sarah Clarke — raps three times on the door with her staff, lawmakers make their way to the House of Lords, deliberately dawdling and chatting as they go.
From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2023
By dawdling on the TV deal, the Pac-12 might have lost the chance for a clean addition of San Diego State, by far the premier expansion candidate, for 2024.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023
‘Not he! When his tools have done their task he drops them. But you must go dangling after him, dawdling and talking, and riding round twice as far as you needed. “
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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