- present participle of procrastinate.
procrastinating
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, many keep procrastinating right up until the six-month extension ends on Oct.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
“Say you’ve got donations in the back of your car and you keep procrastinating in dropping those off,” said AAA’s Diaz, “get that extra weight out of your vehicle.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
No fan of Dyer’s, whose many books have ranged from a bizarre if thrilling immersion in the psyches of American jazz musicians to a volume about procrastinating while trying to write about D.H.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
So Murderbot, instead of proactively going out on these adventures, is procrastinating.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2025
“As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we’d never get nothing done.”
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
