(v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
(v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
(n.) A dawdler.
Example Sentences:
(1) He moved into the area, dawdled and measured a pass to Herrera whose side-foot finish deflected off Laurent Koscielny for what turned out to be the winner.
(2) Just as the game seemed to be petering out to a draw, Vardy robbed a dawdling Gareth McAuley of possession near halfway and drove forward before finding the bottom left corner of Boaz Myhill’s goal.
(3) Because the longer the league dawdles in its headquarters' backyard, the closer Orlando is to its stadium deal, making its franchise allocation incontestable.
(4) Even the structure of rivers changed as elk, harassed by a new predator, were unable to casually dawdle on the riverbanks.
(5) Guzan, dawdling in possession, was given the hurry up by the referee and tossed the ball to Ron Vlaar.
(6) Fantastic Four review - a dawdling indie drama dressed up in superhero garb Read more There was better news for The Gift , a psychological thriller starring Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall which marks Australian actor Joel Edgerton’s debut as a director.
(7) We’re all in a relay race with the ghosts of the past and the mewling newborns, there’s no time to dawdle.” Looking round today, does she see any remnants of that spirit of punk and rebellion that first made her pick up a magazine and a scalpel in the 70s?
(8) Giggs, who joined the small band of footballers aged 40 to feature in the competition with this appearance, became the latest player in red to dawdle when he lost the ball, allowing Teixeira to again skate through and create more worry.
(9) Garmash dawdled, Fernando stole the ball, and when it was recycled to Agüero the striker’s run was clever as it peeled off to the right but the finish was less so, blazing across Shovkovskiy and wide.
(10) They have impressive pace and power on the counterattack and the final substitute, Wilfried Zaha, robbed a dawdling Laurent Koscielny but he could not release Adebayor in the middle.
(11) If so, the soporific way Per Mertesacker dawdled in possession and Kieran Gibbs clumsily punted the ball into the air suggested there had been scant impact.
(12) Ramires’s early header, thumped down and through Simon Mignolet as he burst beyond a dawdling Alberto Moreno, was a false dawn.
(13) Just as the speed cameras on the A66 hereabouts bring traffic to a momentary dawdle, so Sharp Edge and Foule Crag directly overhead arrest the progress of the faster hilltop climbers making their way up the mountain, the 700ft of Skiddaw slate knife-blade needing extra concentration and care when iced.
(14) Reading is delayed gratification, as you dawdle through the development for the payoff.
(15) The Northern Ireland international had been ignored by Chelsea’s midfield shield, with Willian and Cesc Fàbregas dawdling.
(16) Messi was dawdling in an offside position after a Barcelona move had broken down and his clever positioning made it almost impossible for City to stop him.
(17) 8.25pm GMT 37 min: Wes Brown dawdles on the ball as he attempts to walk it out from the back and gets robbed of possession by Azpilicueta, who prods the ball towards Eto'o, who tries to tee up a shooting opportunity.
(18) Moments later, Adam Johnson hung on the last Everton man waiting for a quick pass to release him but when Sebastian Larsson dawdled before flipping the ball over momentum was lost and the manager struck a hand in frustration.
(19) Here was jubilation for City and a key away goal but emotion changed to dismay when, on 41 minutes, Fernando dawdled over a pass out from Hart.
(20) Milner should have increased their lead moments later after being sent clear by Firmino, but the midfielder’s dawdling allowed Robbie Brady to poke the ball away.
Doodle
Definition:
(n.) A trifler; a simple fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(2) Google has celebrated the birth of the inventor of the petri dish, Julius Richard Petri, who was born on May 31, 1852 with a doodle on its home page.
(3) The same day, a departmental personal computer began playing "Yankee Doodle," a sign of "Doodle" virus infection.
(4) Just in the last month, I have downloaded apps for Eventbrite, Doodle, Yelp, Google Drive, Gmail, Ocado, Buzzfeed and Kickstarter, all companies with perfectly good websites.
(5) So you never died, you just kept regenerating.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest 65th anniversary of the birth of Freddie Mercury For Cruikshank, the key to the popularity of the Doodle is that “it shows the human behind the machine”.
(6) For a guy used to doodling funny pictures – it's possible that I'm underestimating the work that goes into building an animation empire – MacFarlane had his hands full with Ted .
(7) Google has nailed its colours to the mast over Russia's gay rights record in a new Google doodle , which is dedicated to the Olympic charter.
(8) We have one meeting going on above the table and another underneath.” There hasn’t yet been a Google Doodle marking Lassie’s birthday.
(9) A functioning Turing machine, a representation of a computing device, is the latest Google doodle , which celebrates the birth of Alan Turing on 23 June, 1912.
(10) "It was really hard to bite our tongues," says Taylor, who's furiously doodling a turtle with laser eyes and avoiding any eye contact.
(11) The doodle features an animation of five swimmers bobbing in and out of the water as a wave splashes over them.
(12) The doodle features six petri dishes which are swabbed by a hand.
(13) Google India has marked the 95th birthday of tabla legend Ustad Alla Rakha with a doodle dedicated to him.
(14) Today, however, the Google Doodle has evolved into a global showcase for beautiful illustration fused with creative technology.
(15) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
(16) The collection appear to be chosen on the basis of being inspirational or beautiful rather than being endangered; Google's doodle is accompanied by a photo-sharing initiative on Google+ called #MyBeautifulEarth .
(17) Other doodles in Buckworth’s notebook seen by the Herald included a sketch of a chandelier; the phrase “Terrorismadeup”; and a cartoon of a child clutching his head with a thought bubble saying: “Tyrannosaurus Rex.
(18) The search engine said it tried to be sensitive in not putting sombre occasions into one of their trademark doodles but instead featuring them in some way on their homepage.
(19) Where Kid A's Everything in Its Right Place was a messy and inconsequential doodle, Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box is sharp, articulate and riven with paranoia, a subject lead singer and conspiracy theorist Thom Yorke, who recently implied he was the subject of MI5 surveillance, is well-qualified to discuss.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.