dallying with
Example Sentences
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Darrah’s dallying with cowboys, desert rats and glitter queens around a seedy motel isn’t, itself, altogether new to modern opera stagings, but it felt fresh and right for this little-known score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
Pound was living in Italy and toiling on his great poem “The Cantos,” while dallying with Fascism and Benito Mussolini.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
She was Sophie, the posh muppet who succumbed insanely to the non-charms of both Mark and Jez before dallying with her no less tragic but more butch workmate Jeff.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2013
Collars told the scientists when a female snow leopard spent several days dallying with a male.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2011
The unit organizer, who had been dallying with his pencil, looked up.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
