Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "procrastinate"

Lexicographically close words:
proconsul; proconsular; proconsulate; proconsuls; proconsulship; procrastinated; procrastinating; procrastination; procreant; procreate
  1. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end.

  2. I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.

  3. Wilful persistency in sin may lead to the loss and forfeiture of the ability to repent; and for man to procrastinate the day of repentance is to invite and eventually to insure such forfeiture.

  4. Why should I procrastinate my doom and strive to render my burden more light?

  5. They must be endured, but that infirmity may be forgiven which makes me inclined to procrastinate my suffering.

  6. I would fain have it a day later: I would fain procrastinate even by a day.

  7. At the meeting of the court, in the morning, the expected messenger was not there, and the ingenuity of the counsel was taxed still farther to procrastinate the important period.

  8. He complains that I did not procrastinate time according to agreement.

  9. It was then mutually agreed that we should adjourn to Springfield, and there procrastinate the matter, for the purpose of effecting the secret arrangement between him and myself.

  10. There would be an evident impropriety in committing, because it would argue a right in the House to deliberate, and, consequently, a power to procrastinate the measure applied for.

  11. He was opposed to a recommitment, as it would procrastinate instead of expediting the inquiry.

  12. If you only knew all that I know, you'd learn what good reason I have for believing I shall never procrastinate again; but I'd rather not tell you what it is.

  13. Take care that you do not neglect it, or be tempted to procrastinate again.

  14. They resolved, in their indignation, not to procrastinate longer the deliverance of the Republic, and to strike down with one blow the ambitious youth who was conspiring for supreme power.

  15. It was folly to procrastinate the hour for delivering the country from the ambition of Gianettino, when everything was smiling upon their hopes and nothing but their own hesitation foreboded danger.

  16. He made an arrangement with Leone Strozzi, prior of Capua, by which the latter agreed to support the enterprize; but Strozzi thought it wiser to procrastinate until the result of the Germanic war should be known.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procrastinate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; continue; cut; dally; dawdle; delay; drag; extend; filibuster; hang; hesitate; jump; lag; leave; lengthen; linger; loiter; omit; play; poke; procrastinate; prolong; protract; shirk; skip; slack; stall; stay; tarry; temporize; trail; trifle