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How to use dawdle in a sentence

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I slowed down to a dawdle and left my property, trailing my fingertips along the white picket fence next door.
Mr. Lase had just called for the girls to continue playing and not dawdle while goggling at the boys.
You may not be a hard pusher for one of your shortcomings may be that you dawdle a bit.
One thing that made her furious was that she could never afford to dawdle or look uncertain when she was in public.
Although they lowered the number of procedures to only five, their implementations lasted 174 days because of the administration dawdle.
I wandered on down the corridor to the elevator, to dawdle and not run into coarrivals.
There's not much to do here but fish, dive, watch the sun sizzle down into the Indian Ocean and to dawdle your bicycle along the island's one path.
The AU says it may consider sending more. While western countries dawdle, this may be all the peacekeeping Darfur will get.
It vents much of its displeasure on the bank-restructuring agency, which continues to dawdle.
To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
The cycles track will enable you to dawdle in the countryside and to reach Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, lovely seaside resort at 8 kilometres only.
Why do they diddle and dawdle while real-life families suffer?
Dear readers, do not dawdle away your time with fictitious tales.
Better to start down the so-called Superhighway than dawdle and wind up as road-kill.
Five days, maybe six or seven if you dawdle, and in what feels like no time you'll be at the other end, in the pub, brimming with beer and achievement.
Wong likes to dawdle for months over reshoots and reedits, but To directs, supervises, or executive-produces half a dozen projects each year.
Typically, a man kills a neighbour in a dispute over land, the police dawdle over their investigation, the victim's family loses patience and kills the murderer or, more often, an innocent relation in retaliation.
Instead, they dawdle and fund the Cameroon dictatorship while the country disintegrates more slowly and millions of its people live shorter, nastier, more brutish lives because of abusive governance.
Having made your choice, dawdle on your way to the checkout page.
We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
Examples from Classical Literature
They cannot brook monotony and it irks them to dawdle about in the anteroom of action.
Johnnie Green got to thinking so intently about the matter that he began to dawdle.
There was method in the way in which Laurence had sought to dawdle away the morning.
They go from the school-room to the rum saloons, and dawdle away the rest of the day.
We did not dawdle over his affairs, nor did we shrink from any work to which he challenged us.
Easy for sleepers to dawdle with words and say carelessly life is this, life is that.
If we succeeded in getting what we had come after there would be plenty of time to dawdle.
While Scary, Posh and the other two still dawdle over the new album, the diary hears they're about to unleash a secret treat.
But Congress continues to dawdle on passing a new highway bill and rejects an evenhanded sharing of resources.
You all know when you learn with a will, and when you dawdle.
All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.
When I like to dawdle longest over my dinner is when I have a heavy evening's work before me.
He was then unsuited by the early dawdle when a good runner-up to Hors La Loi at Aintree.
But Jewell is waiting in the long grass, ready to pounce quickly and bag his man if Everton continue to dawdle.
Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report.
My captains made faster runs than ever and earned bigger bonuses, as did my supercargoes, who saw to it that my schooners did not loaf and dawdle along the way.
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