dally

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 — food is only out for one hour.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 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

Anna May paid for it, and we didn’t dally in the store.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The author gallops through vital moments in world history across the centuries but dallies over what seem like niche aspects of medieval French history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Nightmare for stand-in Dons captain Angus MacDonald as he dallies on the ball and is dispossessed by Kyogo Furuhashi.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024

If the Fed dallies, and higher inflation becomes a more lasting feature of the economy, it will be even harder to stamp out.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

If legislative negotiations prove as fruitless this year as they have in the past, if Congress dallies, he will act.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2014

She can punish old Beethoven, Or she dallies with De Koven, Till the neighbours file petitions and complain.

From A Word to Women by Mrs. C. E. Humphry

Rennes midfielder Quentin Merlin dallied deep in his own area and was ambushed by Timothy Weah who passed to Amine Gouiri.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

It, along with its sibling, had stood empty for nearly 25 years, as local, county and Navy authorities dallied on what to do with them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

After the fourth try, scored by Etzebeth, made it 26-25, Dupont dallied on the ball and got knocked back as South Africa won a penalty and went further ahead.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2023

For example, the amateur developers who used Reddit’s API to build their own compatible mobile apps while the company dallied on making an official, workable one.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2023

Sometimes she dallied, turning back for one more glimpse of P.S.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

I have been dallying and making a gluten-free french toast with some nice seeds, vanilla, cinnamon and berries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

Arsenal went into half-time with 15 attempts at goal, of which only three were on target, and the second half started with Odegaard dallying on another chance.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023

Jones’ denial in 24 hours of Meadows’ emergency motion was the mark of a court unwilling to tolerate any dallying in the search of justice.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2023

Klopp empowers his players to think for themselves: the iconic winning goal against Barcelona in last year’s Champions League semifinal came from the squad’s observation that its opponent was dallying during set pieces.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

The unit organizer, who had been dallying with his pencil, looked up.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright