Lagged behind

Usage examples of dawdled.

I turned off the lights, shut the door, and dawdled so even Deakin couldn't suspect I'd had a chance of overhearing him tell Chris the code.

Luis and I'd dawdled over closing the doors, watching a large flock of white cranes fly overhead, then followed about twenty minutes later.

Even when the women did decide to take up their washing and make for home they were in no hurry about it, but dawdled away up the path still bantering and laughing with the young man who strode between them.

Teledrive left me and my overnight bag on the north-west corner of Church Street where I dawdled a while looking in the brightly lit windows of Waterstone's bookshop, wondering if Rachel would be able to hear the store's advertised children's audio tapes in her bubble.

Everything was in its place, despite the insanity that had mauled their lives of late, and though she hurried him on, he dawdled, his head back, squinting at the stars.

But she dawdled, remaining near the place favored by the Adept's son, in case he should come there and need a ride or companionship.

Pete dawdled back and leapfrogged lanes--mobile bird-dog jobs jazzed him.

He changed lanes, dawdled and accelerated--the car followed from a classic tail distance.