dallied with
Example Sentences
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Fatefully, she dallied with Tenney, her second cousin, known to her since childhood, an earnest young man redolent of the “odor of sanctity” who had first courted another of her older sisters, Emily.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021
Douglass dallied with Brown and then, abruptly, withdrew his support from the Harper’s Ferry raid.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Now, it turns out our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, also dallied with another species.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2016
From Pinocchio to Free Willy, from Whale Rider to Blackfish, cinema has frequently dallied with what the whale might, or might not, mean.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2015
Having dallied with the priesthood in the Anglican Church, he abandoned it to become a caseworker.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
