Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "dally"

Lexicographically close words:
dalle; dalli; dalliance; dallied; dallies; dallying; dalmatic; dalmatica; dalus; dam
  1. His memory of Beatrice and the unnecessary warning in her letter enabled him to watch, admire and lightly dally with the rose-weaved chains.

  2. Gentlemen," said he, "we may not dally longer.

  3. Because if His Grace intend to be present at the coronation, he may dally here no longer.

  4. Ye love to dance, and dally with the fair, In saffron robes with purple flounces gay.

  5. You make pretence of love for Rāi, And dally with another girl: Who says brave Kānu is best of lovers?

  6. How many young men falter, faint, and dally with their purpose because they have no capital to start with, and wait and wait for some good luck to give them a lift!

  7. His iron will grasped the situation; and like William Pitt, he did not loiter around balancing the probabilities of failure or success, or dally with his purpose.

  8. How many young men falter, faint, and dally with their purpose, because they have no capital to start with, and wait and wait for some good luck to give them a lift!

  9. But I'll keep this dally round the horn until the toot of judgment morn Before I'll holler 'nough!

  10. Dilly-dally Dilly Is always in a huff; If you hurry her Or worry her She says, "There's time enough.

  11. Why don't you try To be more spry, And not dilly-dally so?

  12. Dilly-dally Dilly, How can you be so slow?

  13. I did not press, all passionless, thy hand Or idly dally with thy taper finger, Or coldly gaze, for I could not withstand The high and holy hope which bade me linger!

  14. Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that word might make my sister wanton.

  15. Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

  16. Unless sure that they were taking all this trouble to some purpose, the red men would not dally long over their work.

  17. Not long do the Indians dally on the ghastly ground.

  18. But the aesthetic sense, although in itself it has always room for infinite growth, is in its inherent nature unable to compromise; unable to bend this way and that; unable to dally with half-measures.

  19. Speculatively we have the right, although the complex vision is silent on that tremendous question, to dally with the idea of the survival of the soul after the death of the body.

  20. There was too much at stake for him to dally at Constantinople; his fiery energy swept all before it, and in the end he had his way.

  21. To dally in the Golden Horn while so rich a prey was at sea to be picked up by his Christian foes was altogether opposed to his instincts: never to throw away a chance in the game of life had ever been his guiding principle.

  22. I invite my reader only to dally desultorily on the gentler slopes of sentiment.

  23. To 'Hum and Haw,' to dally or trifle with one about any business by indefinite and unintelligible language.

  24. To fike,' to dally about a business; to lose time by procrastination while appearing to be busy.

  25. Set fire to this den without loss of time,” said he sharply, “and dally not, for we have far to ride.

  26. I believe I feel affectionate to you in proportion as I am in spirits; still I must not dally with you, when I can do anything else.

  27. But I do not mean to dally with you this morning.

  28. To-morrow we'll settle it, Pete Dally and I.

  29. Pete Dally dropped the big haversack he was carrying over his broad shoulders, and obeyed.

  30. Dally closed the kitchen door after her, darted across the broad patch of warm light cast by the fire into the darkness of a scullery beyond, and closed a door after her to stand thinking.

  31. At this thought she breathed more freely, in happy ignorance of the fact that Dally was just closing her window, gleefully hoping that there had been a scene.

  32. The figure started forward out of the darkness and caught her arm, with the result that Dally uttered a little affected squeal.

  33. There were spectators in all parts of the church, Dally Watlock being the best placed, and out of sight of the congregation.

  34. Dally with her eyes twinkling; "oh, of course, miss!

  35. Dally drew her breath softly between her teeth, and uttered a low, vicious little laugh.

  36. The old man chuckled softly as he extended the stick as a shepherd might his crook, till he could hook Dally by the neck, and drew her slowly towards him, grasping the stick now with both hands.

  37. I wouldn't care if I killed her first," said Dally fiercely.

  38. Dally to herself, and making a faint rustling sound, she glided out from her hiding-place, and crossing the chancel, raised the heavy latch of the vestry door.

  39. Dally ushered the old man in, to stand bowing to Mary and her sister before making a scrape or two before the curate.

  40. Many were the "wit-combats" (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller) between him and C.

  41. Therefore we choose to dally with visions.

  42. To dally thus with death is no fit toy.

  43. But of a warm day, when people can afford to dally and act their part, my nerves are troublesome, and I mount to the top of New-York.

  44. And as he spoke another stable hand came up, deftly threw the heavy harness over the horse's back, and set to work to buckle it with a speed that showed it was a job he did not care to dally over.

  45. Bert therefore would appear to have everything in his favour when set upon by the tempter, and it might seem strange that in this case he should dally so long with the danger.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abide; amble; await; bide; caress; copulate; dabble; dally; dawdle; delay; diddle; doodle; drag; falter; fiddle; fidget; flag; fleet; flirt; fool; fribble; halt; hang; idle; lag; linger; loiter; lounge; mess; monkey; neck; pet; piddle; play; poke; postpone; potter; procrastinate; putter; roam; spoon; stall; stay; tarry; tinker; toy; trail; trifle; twiddle; wait; wanton