Sentence examples for dawdle along from inspiring English sources

The V-8's flat torque curve makes it possible to dawdle along contentedly in sixth gear at, say, 40 miles an hour.

It is comfortable and quiet in ordinary traffic, and the engine generates enough torque to dawdle along in third or fourth at boulevard speed, eliminating the need for frequent gear changes.

It was a flag the riders chose to ignore, preferring to dawdle along chatting among themselves as pockets of spectators cheered – a rolling photoshoot in which Sky's smiling riders, wearing pimped-up kit with yellow stripes, was followed by a mobile champagne reception.

Probably, things will dawdle along until some sort of crisis.

"Until it erupts in tears," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in September, "the film dawdles along uncertainly as though debating exactly how to season its morose story with enough attempted witticisms to keep the audience from dozing off".

But as it dawdles along, it fails to find contemporary corollaries to the super-charged language and caffeine-fueled pace of that grimy 1957 masterpiece, which thrust a knife into the mystique of fame and gave it a savage twist.

If that was it, then it was a particularly underwhelming experience and we returned crestfallen to dawdling along in the midriff of Division Two as we had done for several years under Steve Coppell's management.

Until it erupts in tears, "Love Happens" dawdles along uncertainly as though debating exactly how to season its morose story with enough attempted witticisms to keep the audience from dozing off.

Any audience with an animal – whether it's your pet dog or a pestering seagull, a giraffe dawdling along like a haughty supermodel, or the vast and unknowable bulk of a whale at sea – is always only a tentative communion, a momentary bridge between human and natural history.

The economy has dawdled along at 2.2% per year.

The characters are seldom real and the narrative dawdles along to a finish that is anticipated.