have dallied
- present perfect of dally.
Example Sentences
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They may have dallied with less tame species at some point and become their own breed.
From Time ● May 29, 2012
And though New Yorkers have dallied with both, many have now discovered a lawn game from the flyover states.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2011
But while U.S. businessmen have dallied, the world has not waited.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Emperors have dallied with us, wanting the gifts we bear to the Empire.
From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)
But these are all Utopian thoughts: I have dallied long enough with life; 'tis time to be in earnest.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert