dawdled in a sentence

1. we've dawdled here for too long.

2. 10For we could have been there and back twice if we had not dawdled.”

3. It had got dark already, I had just dawdled too much at the beginning of the day.

4. Instead of urgently sending a modest European peacekeeping force, the EU dawdled during critical weeks.

5. You and I have dawdled round each other long enough, and are we any safer than Smith and Mary Gray, who met last night?

6. He must carry through more vigorously the "reforms" (austerity measures) already undertaken by previous governments, which had often dawdled at hastening the decline of the social State.

7. Before closing, here's a quick explanation of why Venus makes such a spectacular entrance into the morning sky this month while it seemingly dawdled as it attained visibility early this year in the evening sky.

8. Secondly, the Court took two years to reach a decision, and would probably have dawdled even longer if it hadn’t feared the disgrace of an ECHR judgment from Strasbourg denying it the quality of an effective legal remedy for human rights violations.