Verb (used without object) : Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He dawdled away the whole morning.    From Dictionary.com. 

But you know, dawdling is fun too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get writing or Get Lost | Write to Done] Reference

Government had expressed "astonishing denialism" over the matter and its "dawdling" had fuelled a media frenzy which an inquiry and.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But his dawdling is lame.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Enough already with the gymnastics gyrations] Reference

Hollywood is still "dawdling" over DRM, film rights and downloadable media, according to a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beet.TV] Reference

The only person seriously angry at the Prime Minister's "dawdling," was Mina Zabriska; and she had enjoyed no chance of telling him so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference

Oliver is dawdling, which is making Dad tense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Jade] Reference

A vague period of "dawdling," as Virginia evasively expressed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castle Of The Shadows] Reference

"What in heck keeps them dawdling so long over it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

There was no dawdling over dressing on this occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

They are dawdling and dulcified to a deplorable degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

The old man could stand nothing as little as what he called dawdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

Breakfast over, there was no dawdling and putting off of the day's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference

A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vigorish] Reference

Dolly broke into a light canter; this evidently was not an occasion for dawdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

She seemed to be dawdling and smiling, like someone making the most of a fine day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret Bides His Time]

But bureaucratic dawdling over contracts and deliveries stalled just about everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Went Wrong] Reference

And I'm not patient with dawdling, but I recognize the degree of difficulty of the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference

And it amazes him how I'm forever dawdling with my coffee and misplacing it at job sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [White-Collar Man In A Blue-Collar World] Reference

"I measured it this morning while you were dawdling over your breakfast," answered Croyden.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

"I want to be at work in the world," said Tom, "and not dawdling away three years at Oxford.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference

With the CIA still dawdling, sources say, a fed-up Freeh wants the tougher Senate bill enacted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tug Of Mole] Reference

I am not listening as my attention is on the giant Burmese mountain dog that is dawdling past us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dogs: face to face with my worst enemy] Reference

Of course neither pleasure nor task went forward very smoothly, but Rosemary enjoyed the sensation of dawdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

(Soundbite of peacocks) HILLARD: Meanwhile, the sun is setting and the dawdling peafowl are coming home to roost.    From Wordnik.com.  [S. California Neighbors Cry Fowl Over Peacocks] Reference

Not that Kate was a gadder about or a gossip, but she was sleeveless, dawdling, and dreamy, and always behindhand.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference

So long as the sun shines and the water lies good and flat, dawdling along in such a craft is an ideal way to travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference

DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS: Well, 20 minutes when I'm sort of dawdling along, but it took me about 12 minutes that morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2002] Reference

Serve him right if she locked the house and allowed him to stay in the sheepcotes, or wherever it was he was dawdling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference

I found D---- at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

So I took my resolution, and determined to risk every thing rather than go on in this dawdling way, fretting my heart out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference

But -- when you married me, you didn't marry a dawdling dude chattering 'advanced ideas' with his head full of libertinism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

No wonder that in its lurid light the Government for a moment forgot its dawdling "peace policy," and "let slip the dogs of war.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference

KING: Didn't he kind of run on a campaign to bring troops home from just about everywhere and that he has kind of been accused of dawdling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009] Reference