Sentence examples for to dally from inspiring English sources
verb
To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
Nobody expects him to dally.
There is no time to dally.
"There's no reason for anyone to dally".
Mr. Blair cannot afford to dally".
"We are not going to dally.
Of course, perhaps we have more time to dally than the Europeans do.
Dr. ElBaradei defended the plan at the time, saying there were "clear deadlines" that proved it was "not an open-ended invitation to dallying with the agency or a ruse to prolong negotiations and avoid sanctions".
In announcing the work plan in August, Dr. ElBaradei said its deadlines proved that the plan was "not an open-ended invitation to dallying with the agency or a ruse to prolong negotiations and avoid sanctions".
Is it plague, fire and revolution – all of which feature in the world of the great 17th-century diarist Pepys – or the daily details he records from feasting on oysters to "dallying" with women at every available opportunity?
Dr. ElBaradei defended his plan to get more answers from Iran, saying, "There are clear deadlines, so it's not, as some people are saying, an open-ended invitation to dallying with the agency or a ruse to prolong negotiations and avoid sanctions".
By the time he reached her two months later — she had been transferred to a prison in West Virginia — it was too late to make her case to Judge Dally, Mr. Dominguez said.
