Sentence examples for I dawdled from inspiring English sources

My husband left for his office while I dawdled.

I dawdled on Twitter, on style blogs; I ordered clothes I'd never wear.

Somewhere there were pressing deadlines, but I dawdled, stretching out the moment.

"I dawdled a bit, drank some water I didn't really want and went back to the room," he wrote.

My family and I dawdled in Gort, spending time with an aunt and uncle who have retired from farming.

It occurred to me that the idea of becoming "The Swimmer" might be more enchanting than its execution, so I dawdled.

"If I dawdle, it's maybe three minutes end to end," he said.

Back on the lake, I dawdle past squadrons of pelican, black swans and dolphin pods.

And so I dawdle, I get up, I sit down again, I examine an object I had no interest in before.

I dawdle at the kitchen bin with an empty water bottle and wonder whether I can recycle this kind of lid or whether it just gets binned with the other rogue plastics.

I dawdle over this familiar ground because the digitally produced prints of classic Walker Evans photographs, now at the UBS Art Gallery, are so seductive and luxurious — velvety, full of rich detail, poster-size in a few cases and generally cinematic — that they raise some basic issues about the nature of photography.