Sentence examples similar to remain dilatory from inspiring English sources

"Adelaide's Lament," Vivian Blaine's showstopper in "Guys and Dolls," is definitive of her situation -- a "female remaining single, / Just in the legal sense," who tends to "develop a cold" when brushed off yet again by her dilatory boyfriend.

They are being dilatory, too.

God bless diazepam, its dilatory grace.

There is minimal accountability for dilatory performance.

Consob's dilatory pace is one.

But the comfort is false and dilatory.

The Trump family knew that gun laws were dilatory, meddling.

We, I'm afraid, have been a bit dilatory.

Britain is left looking very exposed, and indeed, very dilatory.

We sense the poignancy -- or is it dilatory behavior?

They are a dilatory mechanism for postponing judgment and diffusing blame on to underlings.