How to Use dilatory in a Sentence

dilatory

adjective

• This new, less dilatory mode doesn’t ask to be understood, but haunts us with a bleakly dead-on, diffident humor about the pain of being alive.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• These dilatory announcements fudged the core question of whether masks protect the wearer from others or others from the wearer.
  — Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
• State and local governments have been even more dilatory.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
• That was a corollary to the dilatory pursuit of war crimes prosecutions by a West German justice system that was riddled with lawyers and judges who were former Nazis.
  — Alison Smale, New York Times, 17 June 2016
• Fieseler also attends to a different kind of heroism — the painstaking slog of activism that has seen the fire commemorated in plaques and public days of mourning, the seeking of sympathy from a dilatory city and church.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• One lawmaker said Steve Ricchetti, a former chief of staff to Mr. Biden, had been candid last summer about the campaign’s dilatory approach to the party’s internal divisions.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• Republicans quickly coalesced around filling the seat, regardless of whom Mr. Trump nominated, and that left Democrats with very little to do but turn to dilatory tactics and make their case to voters.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• But Haskins’s dilatory dropback decisions are precisely what coaches fear with an ill-prepared young QB.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Ruders, a prolific composer with a dazzling musical mind, sometimes writes works whose expressive ends can seem dilatory and obscure.
  — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 28 May 2017
• Bolick, R-Phoenix, eventually cut off public comment and discussion as Republicans argued Democrats were being dilatory, forcing a vote on the bill.
  — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• This election is already shaping up to be a referendum on the dangerous, dilatory, and desperate presidency of Donald Trump.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
• Detractors labeled López Obrador’s tentativeness a de facto endorsement of Trump’s dilatory legal tactics and assertions of electoral fraud.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2020
• Concurrently, under the Obama administration, the federal government was also dilatory in the extreme.
  — WSJ, 10 Apr. 2020

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