dally
verb (used without object)
to waste time; loiter; delay.
are dallying
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present progressiveof dally.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In the meantime, a few brands are dallying with cool stuff on the side.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2019
Mr. Lyndsay, your friend has made his choice, but you are dallying between belief and unbelief.
From Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer
Messala told me last week that he had persuaded Tibullus to bring out a book of verse immediately, while you and Virgil are dallying between past and future triumphs.
From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
