(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.
Straggle
Definition:
(v. t.) To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
(v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
(v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
(v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
(n.) The act of straggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the electron beam this is accomplished using a dual scattering foil system in which the secondary foil is shaped to optimize uniformity and minimize energy loss and energy straggling.
(2) His family were ahead and he was just straggling behind.
(3) That film’s entire team came triumphantly on and then had to be ignominiously herded off while Moonlight’s team straggled on for their anti-climactic and muddled moment .
(4) Range straggling, creation of secondary particles, electron pickup, and the effects of inhomogeneous absorbers were analyzed in terms of cell survival.
(5) But the first edition was 3,500 copies and it finely straggled into paperback - there was one bidder.
(6) This second image shows that the boy was straggling behind a larger group of refugees.
(7) Larks ascending Read more A singleton shot out from the side of the path, and another straggle of birds rose from the next rectangle of ridged soil, space-hopping over the ground.
(8) Behind came a straggling caravan of mules and porters, including a couple of teenage boys who watched the college girls with sullen fascination.
(9) The diameter of the papules is mostly 3-5 mm, they are not painful when touched, are straggled irregularly, their large numbers are on the upper surface of the body.
(10) This study has intercompared the predictions of Fermi-Eyges theory for the rms spatial spread (sigma) of an electron pencil beam scattering in muscle-, lung- and bone-equivalent media with those of; two range straggling modifications to the theory, Monte Carlo simulations, and an empirical method based on broad beam penumbra.
(11) The effect of the physical state (phase) of the absorbing medium and the energy straggling of the alpha particles on the calculation of the radiation dose due to the daughter products of radon deposited in the lung have been studied in detail.
(12) Gone are the straggle of run-down Victorian buildings, and in has come a slick modernist exterior, modern classrooms and wide corridors after a complete rebuild six years ago.
(13) The conclusions are based on a detailed Monte Carlo model which includes Landau straggling, multiple scattering, and the space dependence of the magnetic field.
(14) The discrepancy in the surface dose is shown to exist because the modified Landau energy-loss straggling distribution used in ETRAN underestimates the mean energy loss by about 10% since it underestimates the number of large energy-loss events.
(15) The two range-straggling modifications to Fermi-Eyges theory developed for soft tissue do not agree with either measured or Monte Carlo results for sigma in homogeneous scattering media of lung and bone.
(16) One group is ahead, a few straggle behind, among them Marwan and other children.
(17) These previously published kernels either completely ignore secondary electrons or are based on a Monte Carlo code which improperly sampled the Landau energy straggling distribution.
(18) A second photograph, posted by UN staff on Tuesday, showed that the boy was straggling behind a larger group of refugees.
(19) The small lateral and range straggling, combined with an increase of the dose deposition with increasing penetration depth enables the production of dose profiles shaped precisely to the contours of the treatment volume.
(20) A low, sullen warehouse building, 299 Meserole Street sits in a straggle of industrial units not far across the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn.