PROCRASTINATION in a Sentence

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I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit ...

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 Meanings and Examples of PROCRASTINATION
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procrastination
 n.  putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time; slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
Classic Sentence:
1  I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  This procrastinator Kutuzov, whose motto was "Patience and Time," this enemy of decisive action, gave battle at Borodino, investing the preparations for it with unparalleled solemnity.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Looking at four years of receipts he still had to sort through, Bob was truly sorry to procrastinate for so long and not finished filing his taxes long ago.
2  Don't say you are a procrastinator; really, it's just that the pace of this bloody age is too fast.