dally

Example Sentences

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He did not dally, perhaps mindful of what had happened the night before.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

If you dally as the clock approaches 2 p.m. on Sunday, you will see that Jerson Osorio’s team can unbuild a city as fast as they can build one.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2024

Don’t dally until it becomes an established problem to deal with.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2023

The staging doesn’t dally but there’s enough stillness to allow emotion to drop like a stone into a pond.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2019

At first she cackled softly and ran at the indistinct shadows of barrels and wheelbarrows, pretending they were monsters rearing out of the mist, but she was too accustomed to caution to dally for long.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee