Take one's time; proceed slowly.
Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
1 I go into a few more shops: I dawdle over some china.
2 It wasn't a quick process, but I tried not to dawdle , either.
3 The last customers dawdle out with a grunt intended for a salutation.
4 Five minutes ago he seemed willing enough to dawdle on till midnight.
5 It is after four, but we'll have time if we don't dawdle .
6 Then she had had time, at least, to dream and to dawdle !
7 Third hour of the afternoon, which means I've no more time to dawdle .
8 Think positive and climb quickly through difficult sections-you'llget pumped if you dawdle .
9 If we wish to reach Muira's before midnight, there's no time to dawdle .
10 But then the Germans work, while the Dutch dawdle and the English drink.
11 Carefully, I dawdle behind, so that my companion cannot overhear their whispered speech.
12 Some dawdle , some bustle, a few loudly greet friends and frenemies.
13 Most of 'em dawdle so at the few things they try to do.
14 You all know when you learn with a will, and when you dawdle .
15 It is not a dawdle or a mosey or a wander.
16 Could I dawdle here a moment longer if I did?
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