- present participle of dally.
dallying
Example Sentences
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Dallying there on the edge of the wheelbarrow, munching her red-cheeked apples, it was almost eight o'clock before her mind quickened to a solution of her immediate difficulties.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
Dallying for a brief moment by his chair, there seemed the magnetic premonition in the air of some further and kindlier word.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold