Get to know Dawdling better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like dalliance or trifling.
Dawdling meaning
gerund of dawdle: the act of one who dawdles.
Using Dawdling
- The main meaning on this page is: gerund of dawdle: the act of one who dawdles.
- Useful related words include: dalliance, trifling, delay, holdup.
- In the example corpus, dawdling often appears in combinations such as: dawdling and.
Context around Dawdling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dawdling
- In this selection, "dawdling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lords, deedle and old stand out and add context to how "dawdling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include film a dawdling old pug and for his dawdling on getting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dawdling" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dawdling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There was no time for dawdling, and not a whole lot of space for breathing. (15 words)
The Scullery of Deedle-Dawdling is an elite club for gallus dribblers and swaggering patter-merchants. (16 words)
MPs then follow Black Rod to the Lords, dawdling and talking loudly, to hear the monarch outline the Government’s legislative programme. (22 words)
In fact, I’ve been dawdling about with around eight per cent charge for a little while of late, as it’s more than enough for doing shorter trips. (29 words)
Wearing an electric blue jacket emblazoned with the words “Tell Your Dog I Said Hi,” she crouches low to film a dawdling old pug named Jojo with her iPhone. (29 words)
Criticize Biden for the foreign-policy weakness that emboldened Putin to invade in the first place, and for his dawdling on getting Ukraine real firepower. (25 words)
Example sentences (6)
Criticize Biden for the foreign-policy weakness that emboldened Putin to invade in the first place, and for his dawdling on getting Ukraine real firepower.
In fact, I’ve been dawdling about with around eight per cent charge for a little while of late, as it’s more than enough for doing shorter trips.
MPs then follow Black Rod to the Lords, dawdling and talking loudly, to hear the monarch outline the Government’s legislative programme.
Wearing an electric blue jacket emblazoned with the words “Tell Your Dog I Said Hi,” she crouches low to film a dawdling old pug named Jojo with her iPhone.
The Scullery of Deedle-Dawdling is an elite club for gallus dribblers and swaggering patter-merchants.
There was no time for dawdling, and not a whole lot of space for breathing.
Common combinations with dawdling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: