Sentence examples for is procrastinating from inspiring English sources

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is procrastinating

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To delay taking action; to wait until later.

  • He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.

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Charles Kennedy, the leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats, said "I still can't fathom why the prime minister is procrastinating.

Senator Grassley, the author of the provisions, said the I.R.S. tells him that the Treasury Department has not signed off on the proposals for supporting organizations — and Treasury officials say the I.R.S. is procrastinating.

"We can then assess all the answers and assess the round of talks in general and the whole world can then see clearly who is procrastinating and who is putting obstacles in the way".

He's clever (Cambridge) and rich (family money), a dilettantish author who has published one book, an amateur cultural study of music, and is procrastinating on another, about mourning rituals.

As the Communist Party prepares for an imminent leadership change it is more than usually anxious to keep the AIDS scandal quiet".The government is procrastinating, covering up and clamping down," says an activist who joined the protest in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, on August 27th.

As Diane Sieber, a professor who teaches humanities for engineers at the University of Colorado, described to The Times last March, laptops in class can create a "cone of distraction," whereby students sitting around a person that is procrastinating on their laptop can be drawn into that student's activities -- similar to how I was briefly distracted by the exploits of Mr. College Town.

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Perhaps she was procrastinating.

I am procrastinating and am undecided!

What does it mean when I'm procrastinating?

I was procrastinating, reading a book about the Sicilian mafia.

He was procrastinating in the parking lot when his mother called.

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