dawdle

As Californians dawdle about casting ballots before Tuesday’s primary, the leading candidates hoping to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom crisscrossed the state making their closing arguments to voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

She has set a six-minute daily time limit as a reminder not to dawdle on Instagram.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

If a few passengers dawdle while stowing their bag and finding their seat, it can make the difference between a flight being on time or late in the government’s official statistics.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

And while there's still a need for a similarly big player to volumize Kernza sales, smaller companies can keep farmers growing the crop while consumer packaged goods companies dawdle on the sidelines.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023

“Move along, don’t dawdle here,” one of the sailors from our ship says, shooing us away as we gaze around with amazement and fear and try to gather our strength.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

The story dawdles through its first and second acts, but in its final third does find a more deliberate pace.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

I am delighted you have put a stop to that folly," said the Colonel; "that boy dawdles over here every afternoon.

From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

While Kelly dawdled for the decisive goal, Bain made a superb save late on to deny Manchester United's Amad Diallo.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

Later, at Brasserie de Monaco, the principality’s craft beer brewery, I dawdled over a pint of Blonde de Monaco and fell into conversation with Nils, a Danish skipper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

Not yet knowing what I was in for, though, I dawdled, thinking the journey too far and impractical, until I finally relented about 20 hours before totality over Idaho.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

Already, it’s become a new sign of the times in baseball — an umpire pointing to his wrist, indicating a pitcher dawdled too long.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

Turner dawdled on his way down to her house each afternoon.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Cut a dawdling fight scene here and an interminable escape scene there, and the film would make a delightful in-universe companion to precede next summer’s “Superman” sequel, “Man of Tomorrow.”

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Like, just in case someone’s dawdling, or being careless about where they’re dumping snow.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

After Black Rod — Sarah Clarke — raps three times on the door with her staff, lawmakers make their way to the House of Lords, deliberately dawdling and chatting as they go.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary engorged the waterway, usually just a dawdling stream during the summer, widening its banks from 15 to 100 feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

And even though her knee might have been bothering her, there was no dawdling with Aunt Kitty.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan