dawdling

How To Use dawdling In A Sentence

• Not a lot of time for dawdling around in cafés and coffee bars today.
• Stop dawdling and hurry up: we're late.
• We were dawdling in the car park, when suddenly our bus came barelling round the corner.
• Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
• I was dawdling over dessert, still killing time, when an old friend, Rose Dikas, slid into my booth.
• The _cavass_ in charge of the servants was beginning to be fussy, in fear that while we were dawdling about the one train might come and go, and the _sitts_ and _effendis_ be left to the limited accommodations of Aïasulouk for the night. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
• HENRY: There's also political risk for Democrats if they appear to be dawdling which is why they're also sounding a rare note of bipartisanship. CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008
• You can spend three hours on a single sentence, trying to get it just right, perfect -- a wonderful luxury, the kind of dawdling that's usually impossible with a novel. Anis Shivani: Short Stories: Writers Talk About The Form To Anis Shivani
• When we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that S. is dawdling and delaying.
• Government had expressed "astonishing denialism" over the matter and its "dawdling" had fuelled a media frenzy which an inquiry and ANC Daily News Briefing