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
  • This is a to-do list that would drive anyone to procrastinate.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Most of these sales last only for three days so don’t procrastinate.
    — Shivani Vora, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
  • Many of the shows are sold out or selling fast, so don’t procrastinate.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • Slow and steady wins the race but don’t let that become an excuse to procrastinate.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, refinery29.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • What is your favorite way to procrastinate when you are meant to be writing?
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The best way to avoid the worst traffic is to stop procrastinating.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This is not the year to procrastinate with respect to voting.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Change begins with you this year, so don’t procrastinate or wait for someone else to steal your idea.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The goal of the first idea is to prevent voters from procrastinating.
    — Segann March, Cincinnati.com, 18 May 2020
  • Even if your symptoms are mild, don’t procrastinate on seeing a doctor.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The tendency to procrastinate seems to be missing this time around.
    — Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Do not procrastinate — and do not be bullied, either by your spouse or your attorney!
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In the past, there have been extensions – because in the end, a lot of people procrastinate.
    — John Murawski, charlotteobserver, 13 Dec. 2017
  • And while January may seem a long way off, that’s no reason to procrastinate.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Still others procrastinate acting on their dreams because of a fear of failure.
    — Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Others prefer to procrastinate, citing other experts who say such a threat is at least a decade or more away.
    — Arthur Herman, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • People said Facebook was a fad, a tool for people to procrastinate.
    — Martine Paris, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Prefer to procrastinate, or just don't subscribe to that whole supply-and-demand thing?
    — Katherine Lagrave, CNT, 3 Oct. 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
  • Plus most of these ship quickly, meaning ample time for procrastinating wedding guests to get their gift in on time.
    — Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 24 July 2024
  • The details may be dated but the idea is still resonant—faced with a task, people procrastinate.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trick to balancing five jobs is to never, ever procrastinate.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Don't put it off Skalman says the biggest mistake people make in the process is procrastinating.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 30 Sep. 2019

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