How to Use dawdle in a Sentence

dawdle

verb

• Hurry up! There's no time to dawdle.
• Come home immediately after school, and don't dawdle.
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• Pick a base and branch out or mix and match, but don’t dawdle.
  — David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• The team couldn’t dawdle because the dolphins might not stay long.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• Now is not the time to dawdle, as certain entries on the list might still sell out by week’s end.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2025
• Now is not the time to dawdle, as certain entries on the list might still sell out by week’s end.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2025
• Instead, season three of The White Lotus dawdles too long, trying to save too much of the good stuff for the end.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
• But don’t dawdle, many of the Canada Goose coats part of this sale already show there are just one or two left.
  — Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2024
• Make a beeline for your car after the performance to get a jump start on the crowd, or plan to dawdle a bit.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
• Look who’s back in town, ready to stop dawdling between pitches and get on with the business of playing at a crisp pace.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2023
• If the last launch was any indication, it's bound to be gone in no time, so don't dawdle.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 15 Jan. 2020
• Melania can dawdle in New York waiting for her son to finish the school year.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Cut, 14 May 2017
• All part of the less-is-more ethos that has, over the past few seasons, elbowed maximalism out of the way like a dawdling tourist.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• Then one player went the wrong way coming out of the huddle, while a teammate dawdled.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
• His fingers dawdled over my remedies, but his gaze was locked on my face.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• We are rushed through the establishment of this world, only to dawdle as time goes by.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 23 Dec. 2021
• The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Flight attendants turned into drill sergeants, barking at passengers who flouted mask rules or dawdled too long eating that snack with the mask off.
  — Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
• My request to ownership is don’t dawdle.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
• Ticket availability is scant as of this writing, don’t dawdle (with Jon Muq.
  — Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
• Is there some reason to postpone or dawdle on aiming for better for Milwaukee kids?
  — Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
• Fava snuffled and dawdled and took her own sweet time up the sidewalk.
  — Dan Kois, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2025
• Faster pit stops could also help unlock sales for electric two-wheelers, which have been slow to catch on due to dawdling charge times and limited riding range.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023