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How to use dawdled in a sentence

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I dawdled by the carriages as the crowds loped sleepily off the train and homewards, frantically scouring the scene for Max.
They dawdled and were successful in wasting the whole period in taking a single picture each.
He dawdled on the ball at the corner flag and, when he should have been launching an attack, allowed Barry Nicholson to rob him.
The Greek international dawdled and as he did so his captain stepped out of midfield and waved his arms madly at him.
Those who dawdled with their doubts were diverting attention from important government work.
When the school run was necessitated, it was because I had dawdled over breakfast.
I had dawdled a little bit at the beginning so I could keep back with the girls, but the rest of the run had felt a lot faster to me.
We could have dawdled around Kettlewell's charming nooks and crannies but had a hill to climb, no less a lump than Great Whernside.
I moved on and turned right away from the docks and dawdled along doing some inconsequential window-shopping as I went.
Actually we dawdled through Dulwich Village and then hurried to the Park just as it was closing.
As I dawdled through a hamlet with about 10 miles to go, I noticed my handling seemed to be going and stopped.
Yet it had all started so promisingly that those fans who dawdled on their way to the match might have missed the first try.
We dawdled in the general direction of the city and then sat around in Bow looking down at the cars zizzing past at high speed.
The last mile was a track, and we had rather dawdled, so reluctantly gave the pub a miss.
For a Saturday the store was very busy, as customers dawdled up and down the newly stocked aisles.
I dawdled through stinking alleys, and with eyes closed, I offered myself to the sun, god of fire.
It has, for example, dawdled over a bill that would supposedly enforce the right to education, because it fears the practicalities.
It shouldn't have taken us too long, but somehow we were slow, and we dawdled, and chatted, and I realised quite suddenly that we were going to be late.
Since then we have dawdled and dragged our feet over the reform of these institutions.
Denny took my hand and tugged me toward the Saturn as I dawdled a bit.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In all that did not directly concern her he had dawdled, and Dorothy knew and resented it.
But of all my infant duties the one I dawdled over most was going to sleep.
Time is too precious to be dawdled away then, and a man lives every minute of it.
We have dawdled to the end of the dawdling period, and come to the active one.
I exclaimed, as he dawdled up to me at the hot and dusty station.
Some dawdled, window shopped, or strolled along for the air.
Had we dawdled less we might have gone much earlier from Charing Cross.
I walked across Regent's Park, and I dawdled on Primrose Hill, without the least result.
Everybody dawdled that morning, and it was noon before the girls found energy enough even to take up their worsted work.
He dawdled and mooned over that stocking and made and unmade plans.
For all that, he dawdled not a moment longer than he could help.
He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.
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