dallied with
Example Sentences
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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
They may have dallied with less tame species at some point and become their own breed.
From Time ● May 29, 2012
Having dallied with the priesthood in the Anglican Church, he abandoned it to become a caseworker.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
