dawdled

He had no desire to overtake this man although he knew him well, and dawdled until he saw him enter a cabinet-maker's shop.

It was a fine March day, with a bright sun and a cold east wind—not high enough to be unpleasant though, unless you dawdled about.

A week ago she would have been content to have dawdled away the afternoon in the grounds of the villa.

He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday.

The whole of one day we dawdled over the Great Karroo in pelting rain and mist, which reminded one of Scotland.