How to Use procrastinate in a Sentence

procrastinate

verb

• He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work.
• He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.
• One friend in the group, who likes to procrastinate, wasn’t as lucky.
  — David Rae, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• The best way to avoid the worst traffic is to stop procrastinating.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• This is a to-do list that would drive anyone to procrastinate.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• This is not the year to procrastinate with respect to voting.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• LearnedLeague seems like a healthy way to procrastinate.
  — Eliza Brooke, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• The goal of the first idea is to prevent voters from procrastinating.
  — Segann March, Cincinnati.com, 18 May 2020
• In the past, there have been extensions – because in the end, a lot of people procrastinate.
  — John Murawski, charlotteobserver, 13 Dec. 2017
• Despite all of the extra workers, the shippers agree that this is not the year for shoppers to procrastinate.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2021
• Most of these sales last only for three days so don’t procrastinate.
  — Shivani Vora, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
• Part of this process involves getting rid of the excuses that allowed us to procrastinate in the first place.
  — Audra Williams, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2019
• The tendency to procrastinate seems to be missing this time around.
  — Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Most of us don’t need to be encouraged to procrastinate.
  — Walter Isaacson, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• When sensing an urge to procrastinate on a hard project at work, take a first step as soon as possible.
  — Jelena Kecmanovic, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
• Don't put it off Skalman says the biggest mistake people make in the process is procrastinating.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 30 Sep. 2019
• And while January may seem a long way off, that’s no reason to procrastinate.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 23 Oct. 2019
• The problem is that the U.S. has become like that procrastinating friend of yours who waits until the night before a college paper is due to write the darn thing.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Despite all those extra workers, the shippers agree that this is not the year for shoppers to procrastinate.
  — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
• That’s why this is NOT the year to procrastinate getting your taxes done until two days before.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2022
• In the end, though, learning to procrastinate better is less a matter of tips or techniques than a shift of perspective.
  — Oliver Burkeman, Time, 31 Aug. 2021
• Of course, people who procrastinate for years are more likely to get bad news than those who are determined to nip any problem in the bud.
  — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• And, per a separate in-app survey from the same year, about 35% of Tinder users admitted to using the app as a way to procrastinate at work.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• People said Facebook was a fad, a tool for people to procrastinate.
  — Martine Paris, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2021
• Thanks to the pandemic, millions of us have even more time than usual to procrastinate on our 2019 tax returns.
  — Tom Herman, WSJ, 27 May 2020
• The details may be dated but the idea is still resonant—faced with a task, people procrastinate.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• Those in Kentucky who plan to cast an absentee ballot and like to procrastinate until the last minute, meanwhile, have a few more days to sign up.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2020
• There are only a couple of hours left to save money on a new robot house cleaner, so don’t procrastinate.
  — Vanessa Spilios, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• This is a step many people overlook or procrastinate about.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Prefer to procrastinate, or just don't subscribe to that whole supply-and-demand thing?
  — Katherine Lagrave, CNT, 3 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 9 May 2024