How To Use Dawdle In A Sentence

Monetary reform initially dawdled along so slowly that the International Monetary Fund has suspended its bail-out funding.
Then I dawdled in and found her lying on her side facing the wall. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
Don't dawdle, because the Democrats will take up tax reform and have a range of good answers to choose from. DeMint: Obama 'distracted' from protecting the country
This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash.
Some few who had no music in their souls, or no money in their pockets, dawdled about; and the old spectacle of the visitor – wife and the depressed unseasoned prisoner still lingered in corners, as broken cobwebs and such unsightly discomforts draggle in corners of other places. Little Dorrit

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Last year reports that the United States was slipping from Internet pioneer to digital dawdler as its global broadband penetration ranking had fallen from 4th to 15th in six years elicited a collectiv ... Bennet Kelley: Obama, Net Policy and the Kindness of Strangers
The last mile was a track, and we had rather dawdled, so reluctantly gave the pub a miss.
Don't dawdle - we're late already!
Don't dawdle over your makeup, we don't want to be late for the concert.
We dawdled in the general direction of the city and then sat around in Bow looking down at the cars zizzing past at high speed.
Here's a quorum of such quatches ripe for revival, ready for your quaintance: quaddle (grumble), quizzity (oddity), querken (stifle), quiddle (dawdle), querimony (complaint), queme (pleasant), quetch (go), queeve (twist in a road). 'Roads to Quoz'
They are the platform of the procrastinator, the dias of the dawdler, the lectern of the lackadaisical. Archive 2009-03-01
I slowed my pace and dawdled along the edge of the river.
As we dawdled along Sean asked me, ‘What would you say if I told you I loved you?’
On one key issue after another, from the Middle East to North Korea to the Department of Homeland Security, Bush has proven himself to be a dawdler, a foot-dragger who can\'t make fundamental choices or press his team to follow his commands. OpEdNews - Quicklink: He's No Decider, He's a Ditherer
Last year reports that the United States was slipping from Internet pioneer to digital dawdler as its global broadband penetration ranking had fallen from 4th to 15th in six years elicited a collectiv ... digg Bennet Kelley: Obama, Net Policy and the Kindness of Strangers
Yonder she marches, heaven bless her! through the old oak hall (how long the shadows of the antlers are on the wainscot, and the armor of Rollo Fitz-Boodle looks in the sunset as if it were emblazoned with rubies) -- yonder she marches, stately and tall, in her invariable pearl-colored tabbinet, followed by Lady Dawdley, blazing like a flamingo; next comes Lady Emily Tufthunt (she was Lady The Fitz-Boodle Papers
All the same, she is a dawdle and I don't want to be late on the first day of term. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Recently, I made a little journal to try out what I thought would be the "dawdle" of bookbinding in danish: "bogbinderi" and have started filling it in. Archive 2008-01-01
Those who dawdled with their doubts were diverting attention from important government work.
He dawdled on the ball at the corner flag and, when he should have been launching an attack, allowed Barry Nicholson to rob him.
He'd hardly getten th 'words aght ov his maath when, as they wor passin some pighoils' at stood o 'th' roadside, th 'cauf made a dash at th' door o 'one' at wor nobbut just heigh enuff for it get in at, brast it oppen, gooin in an 'strippin off Dawdles, left him sittin i' th 'middle o' th 'rooad, wonderin who'd hit him wi a looad o' bricks. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
So slowly Ella dawdled outside where she found Maddie sitting on the bench of a picnic table staring at a group of boys who were playing a game of touch football in the school yard.
It dawdles across the sky and sets slowly at a glancing angle.
He dawdled nervously toward the door, wishing to melt away.
If she didn't dawdle, she would have time for a quick bath. LASTING TREASURES
Why do they diddle and dawdle while real-life families suffer?
If she didn't dawdle, she would have time for a quick bath. LASTING TREASURES
In his mind was a picture of a girl whom he had "dawdled" on his knee -- a "kid" that he had played with, as a brother might have played with a younger sister. The Range Boss
The army was falling apart while Washington dawdled. George Washington’s First War
As I dawdled through a hamlet with about 10 miles to go, I noticed my handling seemed to be going and stopped.
Don't dawdle over your makeup, we don't want to be late for the concert.
He dawdled, afraid to say no or resist her or speak his mind.
Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed catch finished stamped crypts, chanceful catacombs, forsaken cathedrals, and modify to the hunch of the most secretive jump on earth, Langdon and Vetra module study a 400-year-old dawdle of ancient symbols that evaluation the Vatican's exclusive wish for survival. Www.awesomeblogs.com
No one dawdles or idles there, yet they just manage to cope with the job.
Granted, the smell isn't rosy, and the work can be tough on your hump - a lumpen mass of gristle, muscle, bone and sinew - but this ensures you don't dawdle on the job.
It shouldn't have taken us too long, but somehow we were slow, and we dawdled, and chatted, and I realised quite suddenly that we were going to be late.
If she didn't dawdle, she would have time for a quick bath. LASTING TREASURES
After a 2 minute shuffle of dawdlers assembling themselves, Ms. Fellcart flicked on the over-head projector and began jotting down the groups.
We've dawdled the whole morning away arguing over the smallest issues!
I pictured Liza practicing every possible pose a heroine could adopt in the romantic window seat, but there was no time for me to “dawdle” and try it out. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
I moved on and turned right away from the docks and dawdled along doing some inconsequential window-shopping as I went.
It was quite funny coming back - Clare, Sandra and I decided to dawdle back to the History Room, so went along the Middle Corridor, and stood there waving to people on the Art Room balcony.
We could have dawdled around Kettlewell's charming nooks and crannies but had a hill to climb, no less a lump than Great Whernside.
It was getting colder, the night drew in too quickly for his liking, and it was already dark as he left school and the thoughts that played on his mind slowed his walk and so he dawdled.
We dawdled in the general direction of the city and then sat around in Bow looking down at the cars zizzing past at high speed.
Beyond here, the path dawdles up past imposing villas and more humble caprese dwellings until the houses thin out and the going gets steep.
The British had their own word "dawdle" which means wasting time or being lazy. Undefined
She dawdled away the whole afternoon.
On one key issue after another, from the Middle East to North Korea to the Department of Homeland Security, Bush has proven himself to be a dawdler, a foot-dragger who can't make fundamental choices or press his team to follow his commands. OpEdNews - Quicklink: He's No Decider, He's a Ditherer
Dalliers, dawdlers and daydreamers learn to camouflage their lack of achievement in torrents of words.
They dawdled and were successful in wasting the whole period in taking a single picture each.
Along by the edge of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock. and from under a cocked hindleg pissed against it. Ulysses
Last year reports that the United States was slipping from Internet pioneer to digital dawdler as its global broadband penetration ranking had fallen from 4th to 15th in six years elicited a collective yawn. Bennet Kelley: Obama, Net Policy and the Kindness of Strangers
At ony rate it gave him noa troble to drive it, for it seemed to know ivvery step o 'th' rooad, an 'it seem'd a deeal moor like th' cauf takkin Dawdles nor him takkin th 'cauf. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
One thing that made her furious was that she could never afford to dawdle or look uncertain when she was in public.
This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash.
All the same, she is a dawdle and I don't want to be late on the first day of term. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Don't you dawdle over your breakfast then, not if you intend to make yourself useful.
No one dawdles or idles there, yet they just manage to cope with the job.
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 starter called us to our marks, we got set, the gun went off and I dawdled on the blocks.
Theo was a dawdler, Mrs. Winters said so, a dawdler. Three Stages of Amazement
Don't dawdle - we're late already!
For early morning dawdlers, make sure that there is an established routine and that each child knows what is expected of him.
Monetary reform initially dawdled along so slowly that the International Monetary Fund has suspended its bail-out funding.
On Sunday, two boys and two girls were mixing with the general gathering - window-shoppers, dawdlers, and so on - carrying signboards that said, ‘crazy sales’.
His brainwave easily, drew a dawdle on paper, send that clerk.
Webster's definition of "piddle" is simply to dawdle, putter or urinate (but we won't go there). Courierpress.com Stories
Earlier in the night, outfielder Andruw Jones raised eyebrows when he dawdled heading to first base on a double-play ball to short. Nova Twirls a Gem, Yanks Hang On To Beat Reds
But aitin soa mich o 'one sooart o' stuff seemed to have a strange-effect o'th 'childer, for they fair seem'd to grow gaumless an' th 'hair o' ther heead stood up like a caah toppin, an 'Dawdles hissen wor terrified if one on 'em complained ov a pain i' ther heead, for fear th 'horns should be buddin'. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
I dawdled along therefore, thinking only to greet the place, walk with the stream, and lie in the meadow, sacred with the shadow of her demonian presence. The Flight of the Shadow
Yet it had all started so promisingly that those fans who dawdled on their way to the match might have missed the first try.
Denny took my hand and tugged me toward the Saturn as I dawdled a bit.
Still, I dawdled until eventually, frustrated by my denseness he blurted, "Dude, it's like TED... on steroids! M. Sanjayan: Why Summit Is on Top
You may not be a hard pusher for one of your shortcomings may be that you dawdle a bit.
Last year, Congress debated, dawdled and dithered. Lawrence Bender: Congress: Stop Denying An Inconvenient Truth
I think Michael felt the same because we dawdled and shilly-shallied about; enjoying the freedom rather than getting on with the journey.
Sensing that no other horses seized control of the race the other five horses dawdled along, seemingly trying to save something for a stretch run, the jockey boldly moved his hands in along the reins, and the horse responded with a spectacular back-stretch run. One Season
I had dawdled a little bit at the beginning so I could keep back with the girls, but the rest of the run had felt a lot faster to me.
The job hunter dawdled all morning but achieved nothing.
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.
I slowed down to a dawdle and left my property, trailing my fingertips along the white picket fence next door.
Now August came, that florid lazy month when mid-summer dawdles along in trailing greeneries, and the day is like some jocund pagan, all flushed and asleep, with dripping beard rosy in a wine bowl of fat vine leaves. Gentle Julia
Don't dawdle - questions must reach us by next Wednesday.
When the school run was necessitated, it was because I had dawdled over breakfast.
The Greek international dawdled and as he did so his captain stepped out of midfield and waved his arms madly at him.
Actually we dawdled through Dulwich Village and then hurried to the Park just as it was closing.
We've dawdled the whole morning away arguing over the smallest issues!
Mr. Lase had just called for the girls to continue playing and not dawdle while goggling at the boys (who'd just left the gym).
As he scrubbed shampoo quickly through his hair (he wasn't a dawdler showering type), he stared moodily out the small window out at the ocean.
Dawdle on the gated way and, just before you cross the narrow lane that leads to Bullpot, the potholing and caving centre, look for the fourth sheepfold, tucked under trees.
One saving grace about Medicare: it generally pays promptly, while private insurers will dawdle for months in paying even a simple claim. Matthew Yglesias » Revenge of the Public Option
All the same, she is a dawdle and I don't want to be late on the first day of term. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
But after that, it drags and detours, dawdles and digresses - to the Hague; to Sarajevo, inevitably; to the south of Italy.
For a Saturday the store was very busy, as customers dawdled up and down the newly stocked aisles.
I dawdled by the carriages as the crowds loped sleepily off the train and homewards, frantically scouring the scene for Max.
To be a dawdler is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. In Montana: Film, On the Farm
It dawdles across the sky and sets slowly at a glancing angle.
We couldn't dawdle, though, as dark clouds were gathering, so we turned and stepped as fast we could down the mountain. Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I
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. THE PRINCESS
For a couple of the hottest nights we slept up on deck, too, watching the satellites dawdle across the Milky Way
You will not make the connection, because we will probably dawdle and delay without warning or explanation. Some Observations.....From Dland

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