Sentence examples for procrastinate a from inspiring English sources

A characteristic that we would typically dismiss lightly in everyday life -- a tendency to procrastinate, a hot temper, or a fastidiousness about details -- sends up a red flag for a psychiatrist.

At work, do you procrastinate (a big one for many of us)? Why?

Just knowing her mom would disapprove was all the encouragement she needed to procrastinate a little longer.

Instead, the suggestion is to review each item on the list and procrastinate a bit about them.

You really shouldn't vouch for me (I'm not conscientious, and I procrastinate a lot), and I think little enough of you to ask you to do this last minute.

I cannot say the word "procrastinate" — a useful word for a writer — without hearing embedded therein "cras," the Latin word for "tomorrow," which, St. Augustine noted, sounded like the croaking cry of the dilatory raven that was sent from the ark and never came back.

He also procrastinates a lot less.

While the world argues and procrastinates, a terrifying threat is slowly emerging from the chaos of Syria's civil war: transnational jihadist terrorism.

Take for instance, procrastinating a flight booking.

If there were moments back then when "Sam," as Hartford locals called him, felt a yearning to procrastinate with a little literary chitchat, he could pay a call on his next-door neighbor, Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had turned her into the most famous woman in America.

Schafer poked a few obvious holes in the assumptions behind this calculation most notably that the base of rabid college basketball fans is probably not that large and that there are a lot of other ways employees procrastinate during a normal workday (such as online shopping and congregating by the proverbial water cooler).