Sentence examples for putting things off from inspiring English sources

Sleeping in and putting things off can be very tempting.

THAT old Spanish stereotype of putting things off until mañana still applies today.

Sometimes putting things off makes sense: the silliest impositions on our time occasionally have the decency to self-combust.

Putting things off, then, can be "smart", despite the exhausting rhetoric of what Partnoy calls "the do-it-now anti-procrastination industry".

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

"Everything was signed and sealed, but we kept putting things off like the dates, various letters of credit and things that should have been sent, but nothing ever happened.

Don't put things off or let work build up.

We put things off by piling other things on top of them.

I put things off for a very long time," she says.

People use much more energy in the winter, so don't put things off," says Mr Kloet.

It's not a situation where I said, 'Let's wait and see what those guys get.' They're the ones who have always put things off, put things off.