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How to use dawdling in a sentence

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We were dawdling in the car park, when suddenly our bus came barelling round the corner.
Led by a fully qualified fitness instructor, there's no time for dawdling around the centre and doing a little window shopping.
When we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that S. is dawdling and delaying.
For example, when we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that Simon is dawdling and delaying.
There's no time for dawdling around the centre and doing a little window shopping.
So why didn't I go to work and write the thing, instead of dawdling around the house eating bonbons?
Are you dawdling, putting off doing the things that would help you move closer to the end result?
We all take our time, dawdling across in twos and threes until some poor car has been sitting there for five minutes.
Twenty-five at the time, he had been dawdling while taking a degree in theology.
I've seen plenty of them, dawdling down the footpath, checking out the gardens, smiling away at everyone.
He had been dawdling with the ball on the halfway line as if he had all day to make up his mind.
I took my time, dawdling at windows where I had the chance, stopping to look at the paintings.
People young and old move about aimlessly, dawdling the evening away, some chatting in clusters.
But by then, all your friends will think you're a total freak who drives worse than their dawdling old grandmothers.
The barbed wire, which is meant to prevent prisoners from escaping, also prevents passersby from dawdling.
He compared children's TV to a lazy caterpillar dawdling on a leaf.
When dawdling in Waterstones, the self-help aisle rarely calls my name.
American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
It is not a glorious entrance, but the park itself is, and warrants dawdling and dilly-dallying.
After decades of dawdling and delay, it seems America may finally be coming to grips with the health system's runaway costs.
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Examples from Classical Literature
After this dawdling in the morning, they made up their minds to work in the afternoon.
A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.
We are in half a mind to leave this dawdling Haj, and go on with him to-morrow.
We have dawdled to the end of the dawdling period, and come to the active one.
The man who has a habit of dawdling or listlessness will show it in everything he does.
The other was dawdling with the bottle, and Martin refused to wait for him, tossing the glass off in a gulp and refilling it.
This is the method of Vacuity or dawdling formerly mentioned.
The six were dawdling away our time one fine Sunday in Lynhurst Park.
They had been dawdling over the dishes, and their eyes had frequently met.
How soon I again fell a victim to dawdling the sequel will show.
We have been dawdling about in this wretched country long enough.
Philip saw several fellows with a desultory, timid look dawdling around, and surmised that, like himself, they were there for the first time.
The Venetian capacity for dawdling is of the largest, and for a good many days unlimited litter was all my gardener had to show for his ministrations.
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