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Examples of dawdling
dawdling
If yours are dawdling, cut off the tips of branches that are bearing new flowers.
From the dispatch.com
In Army posts all over Oahu, soldiers were dawdling into a typical idle Sunday.
From the time.com
Santoyo started the scoring early on, stealing the ball from a dawdling defender.
From the fresnobee.com
This takes two to four hours, depending on swimming, dawdling and picnicking time.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Frustrated runners will try to manoeuvre their way through dawdling tourists.
From the smh.com.au
Dawdling for just a week or two could add several months to the settlement process.
From the dailyherald.com
That seems plausible, not least since wages growth has been dawdling, at around 2%.
From the economist.com
While away, Medecin announced his resignation and is now dawdling in South America.
From the time.com
Expect some dawdling, rejection, spitting out and emotional meltdowns at meal times.
From the couriermail.com.au
- Linger: take one's time; proceed slowly
- Dally: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!"
- Lag: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- (dawdling) dalliance: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
- To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time; To spend time without haste or purpose; To move or walk lackadaisically
- Paul Virilio, noting that Socrates was invariably late (atopos) to every appointment, suggests that philosophy itself is born of "idle (often pointless) curiosity, born of the disappearance of physical effort once this becomes unnecessary. ...
- To waste time or be slow getting somewhere
