- 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
Still, even when he dawdles, he keeps you hooked with his filmmaking and his characters.
From New York Times • May 12, 2016
With the precision of a juggler we rescue plates from the chambermaid, who is overcome by this introduction to the great world and dawdles contemplatively through the pantry door.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
