- present tense form of dawdle (3rd person singular).
dawdles
Example Sentences
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If Minnesota dawdles, it “will rack up $1 billion of deferred payments this year,” the CMS head said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
It is the role of prosecutors to vindicate that interest by initiating judicial action when a defendant dawdles.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2024
And yet, he almost takes pride in his ability to put things off, saying he dawdles on an “Olympic level.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Many of Dellario’s gently impressionistic pictures depict Rock Creek as it dawdles through and around large, glistening rocks.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
How, in the lake region, he dawdles among the low-land thornberry bushes in autumn, how he knows of many things to eat beside the thorn-apples, and how plump he gets, and how cunning!
From A Man and a Woman by Stanley Waterloo
