dallies with
Example Sentences
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Keith Poulson’s Chris, an insecure former child actor cast as Nick’s counterpart in the play, dallies with both Mona and Esther Garrel’s Thérèse — who plays the Mona figure and seeks out Nick for research.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
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
If it dallies with Sherman’s grotesquerie to a punishing extent, well, what do you expect?
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012
Most of all, though, this is about Betty as the script dallies with the question we really want answered: will she end up with Daniel?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
Sickness blinds the eye that God framed to pierce the seas, and weakens the wing that dallies with the tempest.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
