How To Use Dawdling In A Sentence
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Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
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For example, when we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that Simon is dawdling and delaying.
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No one admires Emerson's methodology more than I, but in my opinion we have been dawdling over this mastaba longer than we ought.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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Twenty-five at the time, he had been dawdling while taking a degree in theology.
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No one admires Emerson's methodology more than I, but in my opinion we have been dawdling over this mastaba longer than we ought.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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They know dawdling only tries the government's patience.
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Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
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Society divides naturally into classes, diletantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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I know you couldn't have like the word "dawdling" - but there was no such hesitation the 1st time around for the 21,000 troops (which was a 40% increase, then) and now I believe that the delay was purely a PR stunt, to make it seem like he's agonizing (as much as that's possible, from his 2 weeks at Cape Cod to being in a tuxedo, 2-3x a week) ...
Room Eight
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He fell into newspapering by dawdling over greasy saucisson and a piece of bread.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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HENRY: There's also risks political risks 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
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Stop dawdling and hurry up: we're late.
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In the 60-second version, we'll probably hear about nations nattering, tyrants tittering, liberals limpening, clergy cloistering, and Democrats dawdling.
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He turned and walked on, sometimes hurrying for a few paces, sometimes dawdling.
PROSECUTOR
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He compared children's TV to a lazy caterpillar dawdling on a leaf.
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When dawdling in Waterstones, the self-help aisle rarely calls my name.
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Stop dawdling and hurry up: we're late.
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I was dawdling over dessert, still killing time, when an old friend, Rose Dikas, slid into my booth.
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Led by a fully qualified fitness instructor, there's no time for dawdling around the centre and doing a little window shopping.
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Are you dawdling, putting off doing the things that would help you move closer to the end result?
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I was dawdling over dessert, still killing time, when an old friend, Rose Dikas, slid into my booth.
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No man can associate the idea of dawdling with Jenkins and his Guides, yet the Guides reaching Jellalabad on October 12th were not at Gundamuk until the 23d, and Gundamuk is but thirty miles beyond
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
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Stop dawdling and hurry up: we're late.
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We were dawdling in the car park, when suddenly our bus came barelling round the corner.
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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
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I was dawdling over dessert, still killing time, when an old friend, Rose Dikas, slid into my booth.
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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.
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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
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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
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When we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that S. is dawdling and delaying.
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Government had expressed "astonishing denialism" over the matter and its "dawdling" had fuelled a media frenzy which an inquiry and
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Not a lot of time for dawdling around in cafés and coffee bars today.
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He fell into newspapering by dawdling over greasy saucisson and a piece of bread.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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And as I was jogging along in a dream as dozing I was dawdling, arrah, methought broadtone was heard and the creepers and the gliders and flivvers of the earth breath and the dancetongues of the woodfires and the hummers in their ground all vociferated echoating: Shaun!
Finnegans Wake
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Accidental obscurity or dawdling is one thing, sure, but deliberate protraction and orchestrated ambiguity can be choices, no less elegant when carried off with expertise.
Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah!
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Stop dawdling and do something useful!
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I've seen plenty of them, dawdling down the footpath, checking out the gardens, smiling away at everyone.
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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.
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He was hurrying along the pavement, quickening when we could make a yard or two, dawdling in each hiatus.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
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Given the ineptitudes that followed — the Nannygate flap over Attorney General — designate Zoe Baird, gays in the military, Whitewater's first stirrings, the Mogadishu debacle — his dawdling is understandable.
Policy Wank