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Definition of the day : « dawdles »

  • verb delay; waste time
Example sentences :
  • He goes down into the street, and dawdles an hour or so a day at his broker's.
  • Extract from : « An Ambitious Woman » by Edgar Fawcett
  • It is the adolescent who loafs and dawdles on street corners.
  • Extract from : « Tramping on Life » by Harry Kemp
  • Reenawlee; a slow-going fellow who dawdles and delays and hesitates about things.
  • Extract from : « English As We Speak It in Ireland » by P. W. Joyce
  • He must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well ourselves.
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • If he should ever slip up, it might well be put down as an insult, because he never forgets or dawdles.
  • Extract from : « Harvard Stories » by Waldron Kintzing Post
  • He lingers and dawdles through his round of hours as though it joyed him to be sluggish.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Claudius, A True Story » by F. Marion Crawford
  • He must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well, ourselves.
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Of what use is a man who dawdles away his time on a fiddle; of what benefit is he to mankind?
  • Extract from : « The Fifth String   » by John Philip Sousa
  • He doesn't read, and he doesn't study; he just dawdles around, and calls on the girls, and talks with them by the hour.
  • Extract from : « Gabriel Tolliver » by Joel Chandler Harris
  • But Dawdles wor as gooid as his word, an' long befoor it wor done he declared it wor th' cheapest mait he ivver bowt.
  • Extract from : « Yorksher Puddin' » by John Hartley