Dallied in a Sentence
  • In an effort at normalcy, she broke the quiet as Martha dallied over the meal.
  • We dallied over desert and Betsy was readying Molly for bed by the time I left.
  • Belisarius dallied with the proposal until he had obtained an entrance within the walls of the capital, and proclaimed his inviolable fidelity to Justinian.
  • There Julius Caesar dallied with Cleopatra in 47 B.C. and was mobbed by the rabble; there his example was followed by Antony, for whose favour the city paid dear to Octavian, who placed over it a prefect from the imperial household.
  • He dallied till the end of August, many weeks after the defeat, when the coming of Syracusan reinforcements decided him to depart; but on the 27th of that month was an eclipse of the moon, on the strength of which he insisted on a delay of almost another month.
  • The Deans dallied over the dishes and then took a slow stroll around town, stopping at the Western Hotel a few blocks away.