Sentence examples for dilly dally from inspiring English sources
verb
Alternative spelling of dilly-dally
We'll just have to hope that C4 doesn't dilly dally about getting series two to our screens.
It's always the same when you dilly dally in getting up to the buffet at a social function – most of the luxury dishes are gone.
They have toured with fellow febrile punk newcomers Slaves and Dilly Dally, and their debut EP, She's Here Now, is out this month.
Pockriss supplied the catchy melody but they hawked it around for six months until it was recorded by 16-year-old Brian Hyland, who recalls, "We had cut 'Don't Dilly Dally, Sally' but Kapp Records wanted something stronger for the A-side.
While the 1950's was a whirlwind of shows and public appearances for Howdy, in the 1960's he went from Doodyville to Dullsville, tucked away in obscurity along with some of his marionette colleagues -- Phineas T. Bluster, Flub-a-Dub and Dilly Dally -- in the attic of Mr. Rose's home in Waterford, Conn.
Silly, Dilly, Dally Dolly!
Lesson One urges layabouts: "Don't dilly-dally!
12.55am GMT Well, they didn't dilly-dally over that.
Don't expect either Mr. Howard or Mr. Rosen to dilly-dally.
There is less time to dilly-dally on the road to building a business.
There was no speed limit, and the rules admonished motorists "do not dilly-dally," Mr. Mallamo said.
