Playing for time

Usage examples of stalling.

They might have been less lenient with Marle had they felt his stalling would help him.

He began to doubt if the ten monits remaining in his pocket would buy anything more than a cup of coffee, which meant that his time in the place would be sharply limited unless he thought of a way of stalling.

Captain Kirk was forced to stall for time-and the stalling tactics nearly cost him his life in more than one assassination attempt- while his chief engineer worked out how to duplicate the effect and get them back home before the local field densities shifted back to normal and made the retransfer impossible.

He stumbled and fumbled with his strich, stalling for time, but then the General, fuming, came up behind him.

He was thrilled that Fields was already warming to his idea of stalling: He would complete his novel before the nation even heard of Dante.

While the Fuhrer fiddled, stalling for another few thousand soldiers, for a few more Tiger tanks, the Reds had reshaped the earth inside the Kursk pocket.

One of them must display angle of attack or relative airspeed, margin above stalling speed, something like that.

Did that turgid bouillabaisse of un-semantic verbiage have significance, or was it only stalling for time?

The bracer that was all she wore had begun to glow, telling her the seneschal had lost patience in stalling envoys and courtiers and wanted the afternoon throne session to begin.

We know you’re stalling, he imagined the thoughts behind Azov’s broad, powerful face.

Pinch wasn't about to reveal any of his hideouts, either the boozing kens where he spent his days or the stalling kens where he passed his goods to the brokers.

The directive was aimed at stalling corruption, at breaking up any too-cosy relationship between police and their contacts, ignoring the fact that cops and crims were two sides of the same coin.

From Billy's perspective, while the enemy was losing many aircraft, they seemed more than willing to do so because it was allowing their ground forces, which were nonetheless being terribly savaged by western standards, to continue to advance without being decimated to the point of stalling.

But Wunderman had persevered, pointing out that Stallings could quadruple his problem-solving capacity by delegating some of the complexities to the computer.

The fly-by-wire system is supposed to keep it from stalling and spinning, and obviously it didn't.