How To Use Dally In A Sentence

  • I do not dally over the oranges, or squeeze the melons. » The Tale of the $15 Mango Strocel.com
  • It lives subtidally (from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged), or occasionally intertidally (the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide). CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Leah then re-entered again bipedally and grabbed the straight branch in front of her with her right hand. 2009 January | Netflow Developments
  • He let her hand dally on his chest, and while it did so he gingerly pulled at the tuck of his towel. EVERVILLE
  • But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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  • John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.
  • The tube contains toroidally shaped rings within the maximum diameter portions of the corrugations in the tube wall.
  • It has continuations cranially along the uterus and caudally along the vagina. In Defense of the Hysterectomy
  • It's never too early to start loitering, and dilly-dallying.
  • Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
  • He said he couldn't dillydally any longer," Llewellyn told NEWSWEEK. Powell On The Brink
  • She was probably dallying with that stud Michael.
  • The modern generation knows about lounging in the Lakes and dallying in the Dales, but very little about our local footpaths.
  • The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • You come to win, not to dally with numbers and root for the home team.
  • When she emerged - and she never took long, for she wasn't one to dilly-dally - I would step into the hall so that she would see me there waiting and wouldn't be frightened.
  • The unique toroidally-shaped rectangular roof, hung from a basket weave lattice arch with a record breaking span of 315m, is an innovative and structurally efficient solution to providing fully covered, unobstructed views to all WA Business News - Latest News
  • He did not dally over the choice of a partner.
  • Above are three circles arranged pyramidally, each containing nine cusps. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
  • Oh, do tell me you've not wasted my father's money by spending all of your days dilly-dallying with poetry, rather than studying!
  • Sooner or later, we explode with it — in the form of anger toward our spouse, who comes dilly-dallying in after a day of adult interaction, interaction with people WHO WILL LISTEN. The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
  • There we would dally through the long night hours until the tinny clock sounded Reveille.
  • But if McLeish was the type of person to dally on instances of coincidence and place his faith in fate, he need only look at last term.
  • L. was angry by then, convinced that A. was OK and that he was simply dallying around at his mother's house.
  • Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
  • But at present Dan Tugwell was as tender to the core as a marrowfat dallying till its young duck should be ready; because Dan was podding into his first love. Springhaven
  • Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth.
  • She began to cross the pool walking bipedally, but after her first steps the water quickly became waist deep and she returned to the pool edge. 2009 January | Netflow Developments
  • With long delays in setting up the green investment bank, further dilly-dallying over when it will be able to function as a proper bank, and a green leal project to insulate homes with no sense of direction, we've had a year of delays and broken promises. UK slips down global green investment rankings
  • Sanford didn't do his "dallying" in his office and home – Clinton was allowed to continue in office, unimpeded by national public opinion. CNN Poll: Americans think Sanford should resign
  • We can spend our lives dallying in false advertising and slick brochures about barren land and cheap trinkets and never for a moment wince at the dishonesty of it.
  • Indeed, to dally with the theory publicly could do serious damage to a geologist's career.
  • They also move quadrupedally in the trees and they also use a suspensor manner to move around in a feeding source. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • I don't ever remember not hearing 'dillydally' from my mother and grandmothers my entire life. The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed
  • I told you then his fate was sealed and not yours to dally with. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • In fact I understand that the plural should be employed - there were actually three of them - there was the one he was dallying with in the nightclub, plus the girlfriend, and the recent ex who discovered them.
  • Normally it extends caudally over the superior colliculi of the midbrain.
  • I told you then his fate was sealed and not yours to dally with. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?
  • For a long time Gianni was known as a playboy, dallying with aristocrats and movie stars before finally sorting out his inheritance.
  • By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus.
  • Except for the tidally influenced channels, most creeks dry up, with a few pockets of water left in billabongs and permanent swamps.
  • The peals of the Hiltonbury bells rung merrily in the cold air, the snow sparkled bridally, the icicles glittered in the sunset light, the workpeople stood round the house to cheer the arrival, and the sisters hurried out. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
  • With nothing left for Woods to do but dally with records, it was time to congratulate Pebble Beach for an Open in which the greatest current player in the game won it.
  • He let her hand dally on his chest, and while it did so he gingerly pulled at the tuck of his towel. EVERVILLE
  • Moreover, rather than dillydally by trying to get everything perfect the first time out, the SEC sensibly created a pilot project that initially targets the all-important S&P 500 stocks and then relies upon market experience to guide the follow-on expansion to more securities. First Thing's First: Stock Circuit-Breakers In Place
  • When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world. Sex and the Married Man
  • Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice. Rational Review
  • We were thankful for the time bought for us to dilly-dally.
  • It's helped me hit the brakes in time a few times when it'd have turned out otherwise if I'd been dilly dallying along. How's Your Deer Wreck Record?
  • Mr. Lee is now dallying with younger women, and the middle-aged Ching is desperate to reverse her fading looks and retain her husband's interest in her.
  • The list of things he has promised is a good list, but there is no time to dally, whether by land, sea or air.
  • I could imagine the sublime Rita Heywood or Julia Roberts both have been regular visitors to the island over the years dallying over a shore side breakfast.
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  • The bronchial courses caudally, beneath the arch of the azygos vein, to the right bronchus, where it follows the posterosuperior border of the bronchus to enter the lung.
  • He would push us to resolution and not dilly-dally around, as though someone else needed to help the children and the aged, the orphans and the widowed. Donna Schaper: A Jesus Look At The Issues Du Jour
  • The ‘historicising’ approach, the aristocratic strangeness of a highly artificial, elaborate, feudally coded language, falls away.
  • Like Thatcher, who learnt this game from traditional Labour, Welsh socialism talked all too easily and feudally about ‘our people’.
  • Phasors are a very useful technique for conceptualizing sinusoidally oscillating electrical quantities.
  • Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
  • A new-married man, when a pickthank friend of his, to curry favour, had showed him his wife familiar in private with a young gallant, courting and dallying, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • You shouldn't have been dallying with your boyfriend over there!
  • Simon will take his place in the back-row, while fly-half Jones can expect to feel the force of his club-mate should he dally on the ball for too long.
  • Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice. Rational Review
  • His attitude has been to dilly-dally and turn down proposals on firms on trivial grounds.
  • Among the more famous pictures is a Peg Woffington by Hogarth, not here "dallying and dangerous," but demure as a nun; also the "Modern Midnight Conversation" from the same hand; three or four bewitching Romneys; a room full of beauties of the Highways & Byways in Sussex
  • The light can be pulsed, sinusoidally modulated, or unmodulated, depending on the requirements for speed, cost, and resolution.
  • Stop the dilly-dallying and do something about the problem. statatheleft says: Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army
  • The show's bosses can't dillydally for too much longer. The Sun
  • I hit her, I couldn't help myself, I had been watching Fire all day, and she had been dallying with that scum.
  • She felt like an idiot for having reacted so strongly, but he needed to know that she wasn't open to the kind of dallying that he obviously enjoyed with Lisa. Mystery Dad
  • As a woman I feel comfortable folded up in things, you know, practical, not in the abstract, dallying with the emotional side, designing my appearance.
  • Dog − Following premedication, patient administered with general anesthetic, and restrained on its back − An area from xiphisternum to pelvis is shaved and surgically prepped − Sterile drapes are applied − In cat, incision is made approx. half-way between the umbilicus and the pelvis − In dog, incision is made slightly more cranially - beginning at the umbilicus and extending caudally − Incised: skin, subQ tissue, peritoneum − Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.
  • Processing steps are somewhat different from those used for lay-up transformers though the starting material is the same-large toroidally annealed coil coated with magnesium silicate, which usually provides sufficient insulation.
  • The Tower on the Hill, that is the meaning of the word "Dunster," and the name fittingly describes it; for it dominates many miles of beautiful and fertile country, and stands feudally above the village, perceptible from every angle of the street, at once a guardian and a menace. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
  • Don't dally over your meal, we don't want to miss our train.
  • The Diary then drew from John a semi-promise to vote Labour again next time, although he is still dallying with going Green.
  • If there is one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, when instead we should become as victims burning at the stake, signaling each other through the flames. Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation
  • And even those 5½-hour rounds on Friday were caused not by the dilly-dallying of meticulous players, but by brutal, gusting winds that showed off the rarely seen masterpiece, Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia, at its strategic best. Majesty at Royal Melbourne
  • Would that be similar to him taking an aerially motive romantic interlude with an axially rotating toroidally shaped pastry? Latest Articles
  • Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
  • For those who might still dilly-dally whether to go for this jugglery show, here is what a leading critic has to say about them: "A very refined show in a very poetic slow motion ballet."
  • Once upon a time, before our rocky, roundish moon became tidally locked, tidal bulges also swept continually across its surface, tracking the shifting position and pull of Earth. When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene
  • Well, I hope he doesn't dilly-dally too much longer.
  • Its casque was described as intermediate between that of C. unappendiculatus and C. bennetti, being compressed rostrally but mound-like caudally. Archive 2006-02-01
  • It likewise manifests the frankness of men who do not dilly-dally with terms, but who say what they mean, and who mean to settle down to a long, hard fight. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
  • Someone could have taken it while I was dallying with a dowser! Dancing with Werewolves
  • They cannot dilly-dally with the issue as the deadline has been set.
  • Just wear enough if it's chilly and don't dally afterwards!
  • Reply to: see below surrogateship socialise Aidos outraised liquefiable restuffs rhynchocoelous encarnalised come-at-ableness megalopore uxoricide whipper uncolt bonebreaker karyotypical identifer lockstep Ixiama dallyman Chitimacha methylphenidate antiracial inversion Craigslist | all for sale / wanted in boston
  • This generosity for themselves comes from a congress that continues to dilly-dally over a proposal to raise the minimum wage by a pathetic dollar-an-hour - phased in over the next three years.
  • My small olive-branch of fancy will be withered, in truth, and ready to drop budless from the tree, when I cease to feel a mild delight in the billings and cooings of the little birds that separate from the flocks to fly together in pairs, or in the uninstructive but mutually satisfactory converse which Strephon holds with Chloe while they dally along the primrose path. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
  • A similar curve can be used to show the general torque characteristic for toroidally wound motors, but it may also have a flat portion.
  • EMG signals show high amplitude spikes both rostrally and caudally, with no contralateral muscle activity and no detectable rostrocaudal lag at the onset of muscle activity.
  • The artist is a major figure who never puts a foot wrong and remains an example to those dallying with extraneous objects to add to a clean canvas in the name of art.
  • Don't dilly-dally with yanking up your pants anymore. Cator Sparks: Rise Up, Men, to the Glorious High-Waisted Pant!
  • But at present Dan Tugwell was as tender to the core as a marrowfat dallying till its young duck should be ready; because Dan was podding into his first love. Springhaven
  • Fr. _bourder_, to toy, trifle, dally; bourd or ieast with. Early English Meals and Manners
  • The boy slipped and whimpered, rubbing his knee, and Ben tried to catch his breath, and only for a second, because they should never dillydally. Their Dogs Came With Them
  • A toroidally bent crystal with the bending radius in the vertical direction r V = 2R sin 2 B, where R is the radius of the Rowland circle, provides point-to-point focusing with the source spot S imaged at the image point I on the circle.
  • So there, it's settled you're off to napa valley - you best confirm those eligible reservations, don't dilly-dally! Alexis Swanson Traina: Love in the Vineyards
  • Pak's failure to 'incarcerate' Saeed behind 'failed' Indo-Pak Secy level talks: Analysts Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Pakistan's dilly dallying attitude over prosecuting Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed, the prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, has served a heavy blow to the much awaited dialogue between India and Pakistan on the margins of the NAM summit here, as the Foreign Secretary level talk between both the nations have failed to produce any substantial results. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • It is a choice some will make in a world where many feel there is less and less time to dally with being rigorous.
  • So young was she, this _Votaress_, so bridally fresh from her Indiana and Kentucky shipyards, that the big new bell in the mid-front of her hurricane roof shone in the low sunlight like a wedding jewel. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
  • Don't dally along the way! We haven't got much time.
  • Dr. WILLIAM JUNGERS (Anthropologist, Stony Brook University): When animals walk bipedally other primates it is often in the context of carrying, whether they are carrying food items, stones. Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way
  • Moreover the misrule and riot that they keep in those houses is very great, for very wantonly they sport and dally together.
  • After all, each day and week that go by we lose market share to foreign competitors whose governments don't dillydally on negotiating access to overseas markets. Right Turn: Didn't Obama pledge to complete 3 free-trade deals?
  • No doubt many parents have used The Poky Little Puppy to teach the consequences of dallying or ignoring boundaries. ‘The Poky Little Puppy’ — ‘The All-Time Bestselling Children’s Hardcover Book in English’ Is Still Scampering Along in Its Original Golden Books Format « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • 'To be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration .... On The Art of Reading
  • But it built its own governing structure pyramidally, with its select “Supreme Council” members at the top, in command of the most valued information and highly guarded secrets. Shadow of the Sentinel
  • The show's bosses can't dillydally for too much longer. The Sun
  • The spinal cord tapers caudally to become the conus medullaris.
  • So Venus did by her Adonis, the moon with Endymion, they are still dallying and culling, as so many doves, Columbatimque labra conserentes labiis, and that with alacrity and courage, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Get busy--don't dally!
  • BISHO (ECN Tuesday 3 February 1998) - Dilly dallying in Pretoria over the payment of increases in MPLs salaries had hampered one of the best performing arms of the East Cape government - the Bisho legislature, the National and Democratic parties said today. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • 'To fike,' to dally about a business; to lose time by procrastination while appearing to be busy. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • Never dally with a girl whom you don't intend to marry.
  • What we do know for certain is that walking bipedally coincided with a change in where our spinal column enters the skull through a "big hole" called the foramen magnum. Human Family Walks on All Fours
  • Some regarded him as dallying with nationalism.
  • While they're dilly-dallying, my house is falling apart.
  • But the newest version of candidate McCain does not dillydally, soft-pedal or claim to live outside politics-as-usual. A Whole New McCain - Swampland - TIME.com
  • House of Leaves is proof that in this cyber age, books are not finished yet - they still beckon with mystery; still dally with the unknown and unknowable.
  • Above the upper arches are three irregular-shaped openings, arranged pyramidally, the two lower being quatrefoiled, the upper sexfoiled. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
  • We pass by the monastery where De Vinci's Last Supper resides, zoom by the Duomo, under repair as always, head over to the main synagogue, dally at the Piazza, and make our way down the narrowest street in town. Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me
  • Dr. Jeffrey Short, formerly of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and colleagues wrote in their 2007 report that "such persistence can pose a contact hazard to intertidally foraging sea otters, sea ducks, and shorebirds, create a chronic source of low-level contamination, discourage subsistence in a region where use is heavy, and degrade the wilderness character of protected lands. Bill Chameides: Exxon Valdez 20 Years Later
  • In anterior view, the three specimens share an enlarged medial condyle, which is expanded medially and cranio-caudally PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Despite its name, however, Canteen's desire to dally with memory and pop-cultural mythology is not as wholehearted or as determined as Isla's.
  • The conversations between the bird beings sound as ‘bird brained’ as the rather mindless verbal dilly-dallying of the humans.
  • Although it is not strictly necessary, most work is done with stimuli that vary sinusoidally in space or time.
  • I'm not going to be dilly-dallying around and dancing around the issues.
  • Don't dally over your meal, we don't want to miss our train.
  • At the inferior border of the pubis the two corpora cavernosa separate, bend sharply caudally, laterally, and dorsally, and follow the inferior borders of the inferior rami of the pubic bones.
  • He let her hand dally on his chest, and while it did so he gingerly pulled at the tuck of his towel. EVERVILLE
  • WISCONSINITES SPLIT ON WALKER RECALL - A Wisconsin Public Radio / St. Norbert College survey finds that Wisconsin voters are evenly split on whether to recall Governor Scott Walker for the bill he supported that will likely downgrade state workers' health plans to a dally allowance of one doctor-repelling apple. HUFFPOST HILL - Ensign Investigation Won't End
  • particles were colloidally dispersed in the medium
  • Unlike conventional MHD modes, these modes start toroidally localized and grow in amplitude and toroidal extent.
  • _tapis_ in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
  • Was he really casual about it, she wonders, or was he "dallying"? Blog and Mablog
  • I don't dillydally, explore needlessly, or take any big chances. Saved by the Bell
  • Reply to: see below surrogateship socialise Aidos outraised liquefiable restuffs rhynchocoelous encarnalised come-at-ableness megalopore uxoricide whipper uncolt bonebreaker karyotypical identifer lockstep Ixiama dallyman Chitimacha methylphenidate antiracial inversion Craigslist | all for sale / wanted in boston
  • She never had any children, and was not taxed with debauchery: "No man can say or affirm that ever she had a sweetheart or any such fond thing to dally with her;" a mastiff was the only living thing she cared for. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
  • It is built like a boxer, with immense upper body strength … It was a gorgeous colour, moving bipedally and trying to avoid being seen. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
  • ‘To be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration … XI. Of Selection
  • He took the hilt of his ashplant, lunging with it softly, dallying still.
  • Discriminating between deposits of tidally influenced deltas and tide-dominated coastal mud flats in the rock record is often difficult.
  • So I actually do get the point of not telling your spouse if you've had a one-night stand to avoid a bear trap being affixed to someone's pee-pee, but I don't get why Buffoon would even want to dally with another woman in the first place given the fact that my uncle on my mother's side was a trapper. Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home!
  • Not one to dally about, Sally quickly gathered up her cast and got them safely out of the building.
  • V. i.110 (429,6) [dally with my excrement] The authour has before called the beard _valour's excrement_ in the Merchant of Venice. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • Emma was asked: 'How is he this morning?' and at the answer, describing his fresh and spirited looks, and his kind ways with Arthur Rhodes, and his fun with Sullivan Smith, and the satisfaction with the bridegroom declared by Lord Larrian (invalided from his Rock and unexpectingly informed of the wedding), Diana forgot that she had kissed her, and this time pressed her lips, in a manner to convey the secret bridally. Diana of the Crossways — Complete
  • Others may like to visit the website www (enough dallying with the law - Ed.)
  • Don't dally along the way! We haven't got much time.
  • Many of the inhabitants of intertidal sand and mud flats also occur subtidally, where they are joined by tusk shells, awning clams, bittersweets, pen shells, and gastropods such as tons, helmets, harps, olives, volutes, cones and terebras.
  • Except for the tidally influenced channels, most creeks dry up, with a few pockets of water left in billabongs and permanent swamps.
  • The obvious reality that there is little or no time for dallying when in possession didn't register for some of the players until the game had warmed up.
  • Above the three lights of the windows are three quatrefoils, pyramidally arranged. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
  • Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we? Friday Pix
  • Debate persists about when and how early humans left the trees to walk bipedally on land. Times, Sunday Times
  • In their cozy little arrangement, he gets the freedom to dally now and then, so long as he keeps to the couple?
  • This picture, stripped of its moral overtones and exaggeration, is an essentially accurate portrayal of the modally different work motivations of miners and surfacemen.
  • Although perhaps it is more important for a poet to be "companionable" than to dilly-dally around so much with words and stuff, more important to offer "something born of blood and emotion" (as if Stevens's poems don't contain emotion -- has Wiman read "The Death of a Soldier"?) than to write skillful and provocative poems. Poetry
  • It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay.
  • Given that Mariella has been dallying with the Guy from the Bank who is twenty-two, I'm wondering whether we should start a national society for well-meaning would-be cradle snatchers.
  • Don't dally over your meal, we don't want to miss our train.
  • Similarly, I have gotten email from people ‘warning’ me that I am dallying with heterodoxy because I don't see a big problem with Harry Potter books and I kinda liked the Matrix.
  • Christ in glory, surrounded by a _mandorla_, with angels on either side; and in the spandrel on the right, a group of sixteen prophets, seated pyramidally against a blaze of gold background. Luca Signorelli
  • This member of the Piddock family lives intertidally in mud and peat banks.
  • Bhatti said that he had requested additional security but that law enforcement authorities were "dilly-dallying. Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's sole Christian minister, is assassinated in Islamabad
  • During jaw retraction, the neck was straightened, thereby pushing the braincase anteriorly as the lower jaw was pulling the prey caudally.
  • I think people are right that Apple won’t attempt to prosecute, at least assuming the timely return of the prototype (and I can’t see why Gizmodo would be interested in dallying, they’ve milked the story far enough that it’s mostly risk and downside now). The Volokh Conspiracy » The Next iPhone — and the Criminal Law Angle
  • It's just as important not to dilly-dally while you get it down, too.
  • Breakfast is at seven-thirty, so there is little time to dilly-dally over make-up and hair. WEB OF DREAMS
  • Other potential magnetic consequences of the SOLC are identified: its error field can introduce complications in feedback control schemes for stabilizing MHD activity and its toroidally non-axisymmetric field can be falsely identified as an axisymmetric field by the tokamak control logic and in equilibrium reconstruction.
  • Most gardens in Russian country houses contain a swing, a rotting horizontal bar for the gymnastically (and suicidally) inclined, and Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
  • O Hashim! even now I see heaven opened, and black-eyed maidens all bridally attired, clasping thee in their fond embrace. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans
  • Sligo players, anxious not to dally, sought to move the ball on with the minimum of fuss.
  • WHen PM motros are trapezoidally commutated, they are sometimes call "Brushless PM motors". Autoblog Green
  • Analysis of the bones shows that the Dmanisi hominids definitely walked bipedally and upright. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
  • Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we? Friday Pix
  • Singins frum Fern an Hazel,an a big Dallydog grin an waggy tayl frum Teh Baggins Boi Responsibul parentin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • I used to be a fundraiser, and I found that it is best not to dilly-dally too long, but to go ahead and get to ‘the ask’.
  • How should we deal with judges who sleep on the bench, dilly-dally over judgments or commit crimes?
  • Charles is in love with Maria; Joseph is courting the same girl for her fortune, while at the same time dallying with Lady Teazle.
  • How about it walks like a person, or a human, or bipedally. PETMAN Walks Like A Man » E-Mail
  • The fact that feudal tenure commonly served an ostensibly military purpose, that of providing armed men for a lord's host, licensed kings to express their superior lordship by manipulating the descent of feudally held lands.
  • And "dillydally" is underused, as is "hornswaggle" and anything referring to swinging dead cats. The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed
  • Girls, time for class, stop dilly-dallying.
  • Don't dally along the way! We haven't got much time.
  • He warned that public figures should not dally with theories that might prove to have no scientific basis.
  • Apparently she told the passengers that when they had deplaned and cleared customs, they were to make their way straight home, and not to dilly-dally anywhere, as there was a large amount of civil disturbance going on downtown!
  • Although perhaps it is more important for a poet to be "companionable" than to dilly-dally around so much with words and stuff, more important to offer "something born of blood and emotion" (as if Stevens's poems don't contain emotion -- has Wiman read "The Death of a Soldier"?) than to write skillful and provocative poems. Poetry
  • She won't have much time to dally on the Prom this week, though.
  • My friend, both your wife and your housekeeper know that you no longer dally with her, and her loitering in your home is merely charity on your part.
  • Earlier, 11-year-old Nicholas Rushlow of Pickerington correctly spelled "noisette" before stumbling on "hebdomadally" to tie for 17th place. Undefined
  • Because you wisely choose not to dally with a guy who could be married for quite a while - for whatever reason - why don't you proceed with No.2 as if there were no No.1?
  • TAPIS in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
  • Others would say that, well, actually Diana was dallying, too.
  • Never dally with a girl whom you don't intend to marry.
  • There was no dilly-dallying over clearing the tables this morning. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL

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