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
He dallies with brass, too, but the Bees couldn't be further from being a one-man band: they swap instruments and share three-part harmonies, moving like the mechanics of a tightly wound watch.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010
What we note about this mood�the mood of Shakespeare and the natural man�is that it never for a moment dallies with philosophic fancies or mystic visions.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
