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

I ought to have gone back to that poor girl; I ought not to have dallied with temptation.

From A Mad Love by Brame, Charlotte M.

Usually I hie away with haste at sunset, but there are occasions when I have dallied longer than I have intended, and only realised my error when it has been too late.

From Byways of Ghost-Land by O'Donnell, Elliott