dallies
- present tense form of dally (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The author gallops through vital moments in world history across the centuries but dallies over what seem like niche aspects of medieval French history.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Nightmare for stand-in Dons captain Angus MacDonald as he dallies on the ball and is dispossessed by Kyogo Furuhashi.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024
In the second act, she goes to Vassar, dallies with a fellow student and with a publisher — thoroughly modern Millay — and then Mr. Scanlan’s interest in chronology, never very strong, gives up altogether.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018
He dallies, and then tries a pass that doesn’t come off.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016
No fixt abode the traitor knows— On sportive wings he flies; Awhile he dallies with the rose, Then smiles in lovers' eyes.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
