How to Use procrastinate in a Sentence

procrastinate

verb

• He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work.
• He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.
• The best way to avoid the worst traffic is to stop procrastinating.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• One friend in the group, who likes to procrastinate, wasn’t as lucky.
  — David Rae, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• This is not the year to procrastinate with respect to voting.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• This is a to-do list that would drive anyone to procrastinate.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• The goal of the first idea is to prevent voters from procrastinating.
  — Segann March, Cincinnati.com, 18 May 2020
• The tendency to procrastinate seems to be missing this time around.
  — Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Most of these sales last only for three days so don’t procrastinate.
  — Shivani Vora, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
• LearnedLeague seems like a healthy way to procrastinate.
  — Eliza Brooke, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Part of this process involves getting rid of the excuses that allowed us to procrastinate in the first place.
  — Audra Williams, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2019
• Most of us don’t need to be encouraged to procrastinate.
  — Walter Isaacson, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Despite all of the extra workers, the shippers agree that this is not the year for shoppers to procrastinate.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2021
• When sensing an urge to procrastinate on a hard project at work, take a first step as soon as possible.
  — Jelena Kecmanovic, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
• This is a step many people overlook or procrastinate about.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• In the past, there have been extensions – because in the end, a lot of people procrastinate.
  — John Murawski, charlotteobserver, 13 Dec. 2017
• Despite all those extra workers, the shippers agree that this is not the year for shoppers to procrastinate.
  — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
• Still others procrastinate acting on their dreams because of a fear of failure.
  — Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Of course, people who procrastinate for years are more likely to get bad news than those who are determined to nip any problem in the bud.
  — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• The trick to balancing five jobs is to never, ever procrastinate.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
• The details may be dated but the idea is still resonant—faced with a task, people procrastinate.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• But a delay is far from certain—so don’t procrastinate.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2021
• People said Facebook was a fad, a tool for people to procrastinate.
  — Martine Paris, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2021
• In the end, though, learning to procrastinate better is less a matter of tips or techniques than a shift of perspective.
  — Oliver Burkeman, Time, 31 Aug. 2021
• Others prefer to procrastinate, citing other experts who say such a threat is at least a decade or more away.
  — Arthur Herman, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• For some writers, this might just sound like permission to procrastinate.
  — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2021
• And while January may seem a long way off, that’s no reason to procrastinate.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 23 Oct. 2019
• There are only a couple of hours left to save money on a new robot house cleaner, so don’t procrastinate.
  — Vanessa Spilios, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Don't put it off Skalman says the biggest mistake people make in the process is procrastinating.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 30 Sep. 2019
• Even if your symptoms are mild, don’t procrastinate on seeing a doctor.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024