How to Use dawdle in a Sentence

dawdle

verb

• Hurry up! There's no time to dawdle.
• Come home immediately after school, and don't dawdle.
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• The team couldn’t dawdle because the dolphins might not stay long.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• Make a beeline for your car after the performance to get a jump start on the crowd, or plan to dawdle a bit.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
• Look who’s back in town, ready to stop dawdling between pitches and get on with the business of playing at a crisp pace.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2023
• If the last launch was any indication, it's bound to be gone in no time, so don't dawdle.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 15 Jan. 2020
• Melania can dawdle in New York waiting for her son to finish the school year.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Cut, 14 May 2017
• All part of the less-is-more ethos that has, over the past few seasons, elbowed maximalism out of the way like a dawdling tourist.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• Then one player went the wrong way coming out of the huddle, while a teammate dawdled.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
• We are rushed through the establishment of this world, only to dawdle as time goes by.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 23 Dec. 2021
• The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• But don’t dawdle: The vendors pack up in the early afternoon.
  — Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• Through the haze of scheming and months of posturing, dawdling and resistance, what has emerged is a snapshot of how the owners align.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2016
• But in the capital, Friday seemed to dawdle a bit in demonstrating the season’s sparkling essence.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
• Don’t dawdle, though, because places are expected to book up fast.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• There is no reason for owner Michael Bidwill to dawdle.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2023
• Don’t dawdle too much, though, because these two orbs won’t have a conjunction this great again until 2080.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 20 Dec. 2020
• The absence of any overriding vision tells in the novel’s dawdling middle sections.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Haley, again, dawdling, eyes downcast, face leaden with despair, emerged.
  — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Faster pit stops could also help unlock sales for electric two-wheelers, which have been slow to catch on due to dawdling charge times and limited riding range.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023
• Instead, in the last year, the Trump administration withdrew two drug pricing proposals, dawdled on a third, and lost in court on a fourth.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• As a child, Costa would dawdle in the deep gutters lining the streets near her home, the cool, mucky water providing her momentary pain relief.
  — Erika Hayasaki, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2017
• On an early evening walk, my dogs dawdle over an interesting scent, noses to the ground, making snuffling noises.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2016
• Zeta may dawdle in the western Caribbean for another day or so, trapped between two strong high pressure systems to the east and west.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
• McIlroy, who noted that the precise timing of a swing can be the difference between a ball rocketing 20 yards to the left or 20 yards to the right, has hardly dawdled on his pursuit of a fix.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Already, it's become a new sign of the times in baseball — an umpire pointing to his wrist, indicating a pitcher dawdled too long.
  — Alanis Thames, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023
• In 2015 this was extended to three years, but the authorities in Shijiazhuang still dawdled.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• In the realm of decision and action, the West has consistently dawdled, undermining not only the Ukrainian cause but also its own.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2023
• One issue is that Lisa’s attachment to the Creature dawdles too long before abruptly shifting into romantic gear.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024