How To Use Dilly-dally In A Sentence
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How should we deal with judges who sleep on the bench, dilly-dally over judgments or commit crimes?
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While they're dilly-dallying, my house is falling apart.
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The conversations between the bird beings sound as ‘bird brained’ as the rather mindless verbal dilly-dallying of the humans.
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I'm not going to be dilly-dallying around and dancing around the issues.
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Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we?
Friday Pix
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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
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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
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It's just as important not to dilly-dally while you get it down, too.
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Breakfast is at seven-thirty, so there is little time to dilly-dally over make-up and hair.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we?
Friday Pix
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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’.
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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
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Girls, time for class, stop dilly-dallying.
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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!
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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
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There was no dilly-dallying over clearing the tables this morning.
ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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We're leaving early tomorrow, and I'm not going to be dilly-dallying.
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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
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Don't four-year-olds often dilly-dally, stall, and do just about everything slowly?
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Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government.
The Ballot or the Bullet (12 April 1964)
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The most important thing we can do is quit dilly-dallying around about whatever we're going to do in terms of legislation and make it long term," said Murphy, of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Cleantech Future Threatened By Weak Venture Funding
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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
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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.
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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!
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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
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Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
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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
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We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?
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We were thankful for the time bought for us to dilly-dally.
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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
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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.
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His attitude has been to dilly-dally and turn down proposals on firms on trivial grounds.
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It's never too early to start loitering, and dilly-dallying.
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I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.
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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
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Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
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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."
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Well, I hope he doesn't dilly-dally too much longer.
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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
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They cannot dilly-dally with the issue as the deadline has been set.
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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.
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Don't dilly-dally with yanking up your pants anymore.
Cator Sparks: Rise Up, Men, to the Glorious High-Waisted Pant!
