The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive.(那輛姍姍來遲的大型轎車沿著汽車道開了上來。)

The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.(而波普，正是由于幾近于迂的謹小慎微才使得他可以凝神感懷，拓展意境，積聚平生才學，機緣所得。)

The boss sacked a dilatory worker.(老板解雇了一個凡事愛拖拉的工人。)

Oh! these bleak winds and bitter northern skies, and impassableroads, and dilatory country surgeons!(啊，這荒涼的風，嚴寒的北方天空，難走的路，慢騰騰的鄉下大夫！)

" time is life " . Many companies also penalize their staff of mental dilatory severely like this.(許多公司也總是像這樣嚴厲地懲罰那些思想拖沓的員工。)

His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent, but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.(家里人本來知道他一向懶得寫信，能夠拖延總是拖延；但是在這樣的時候，她們都希望他能夠勉為其難一些。)

Already, countries that have been dilatory in cutting their deficits have pledged to be more resolute.(在削減赤字上被拖延的國家，業已承諾要更加剛毅。)

The government has been dilatory in dealing with the problem of unemployment.(政府遲遲未解決失業問題。)

Cautious or dilatory, as in taking action.(謹慎的、保守的，如在采取行動中。)

Dilatory ways of doing things I do to reduce my efficiency.(我拖拖拉拉的做事方法的確降低我的辦事效率。)

His political advisers were impatient of these dilatory movements.