Sentence examples for their dilly-dallying from inspiring English sources

Without a deadline, the Afghans, who have tarried and delayed for eight years at doing the work of defending themselves, will persist in their dilly-dallying and footdragging for another decade or so, figuring that the US and NATO troops will carry the fight for them.

He recalled that there were several more weeks of dilly-dallying before the couple acknowledged their attraction to each other, but the encounter with the snowbank proved fateful.

He settled the architects' teams in a specially built design studio bullpen on the 25th floor of 7 WTC and hung over their heads an electronic "countdown clock" to ensure that there would be no dilly-dallying or personal strutting.

I'm assured there will be no dilly-dallying.

Gaining valuable life experience is not exactly dilly-dallying.

Life force low!" if a team had been dilly-dallying.

"It's a disgrace," Mr. Payard said of his landlord's dilly-dallying.

Dilly-dallying, even waiting just a few days, could carry a steep price.

And then they were running, no dilly-dallying, right down to business.

On Thanksgiving and Black Friday, shoppers who hit brick-and-mortar stores weren't doing much dilly-dallying.

It is not a glorious entrance, but the park itself is, and warrants dawdling and dilly-dallying.