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

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

Don’t dawdle: White’s got the second album, “Entering Heaven Alive,” set for release on July 22.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2022

“Please don’t dawdle, young William. You have a task ahead of you.”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

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

Still, even when he dawdles, he keeps you hooked with his filmmaking and his characters.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2016

There had been under Moddle's system no dawdles at shop-windows and no nudges, in Oxford Street, of "I say, look at 'er!"

From What Maisie Knew by Henry James

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

It also raised further questions as to why England dawdled on his selection for so long.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 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

When No. 23 WSU hosts Northern Colorado this weekend, though, the Cougars will get a chance to sharpen the one part of their offense that has dawdled: The run game.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

And he dawdled as the clouds turned their mackerel undersides to him and the cool of the late afternoon started to settle in over the town.

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

They try to take advantage of Anna Patten dawdling at the byeline as she's dispossessed by Martina Piemonte, but the rest of the Villa defence get back to ensure she can't move towards goal.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

Wearing an electric-blue jacket emblazoned with the words “Tell Your Dog I Said Hi,” she crouches low to film a dawdling old pug named Jojo with her iPhone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

“Tastes very good, yes? Quit dawdling, Monkey. I’m garbage at chess.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri