- 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
Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021
But “Ride the Cyclone” never dawdles on such poignancy — in fact, it scrupulously avoids it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2016
—Three things weary: a lamp that will not burn, a messenger that dawdles, a table spread and waiting.
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams
