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How to use dilly-dallying in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dilly-dallying? Here are some examples.

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It is not a glorious entrance, but the park itself is, and warrants dawdling and dilly-dallying.
Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?
But one message that might be drawn from this film is that, if anything, they should spend less time dilly-dallying around.
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!
I'm not going to be dilly-dallying around and dancing around the issues.
Gaining valuable life experience is not exactly dilly-dallying.
They will then evaluate the study programme, cross-reference and legitimise responses, authenticate the results, and any other amount of dilly-dallying.
I ask you, Mr. Speaker, is the government going to stop the bureaucratese and this dilly-dallying with respect to first nations and Inuit people and act now?
We're leaving early tomorrow, and I'm not going to be dilly-dallying.
Examples from Classical Literature
The dilly-dallying by Spain with regard to accepting a financial bailout from eurozone nations has led to a fall in the markets.
After much dilly-dallying, Salman has allotted dates to producer Boney Kapoor for the eagerly anticipated sequel.
The whole energy set-up in this country needs re-organising as we waste too much time and money dilly-dallying in making decisions.
After dilly-dallying for more than one hour and when our MLAs said that they would sit on dharna, they allowed me and Bharathi to see him.
They said that bills against the dues were approved in June but the board's accounts department was dilly-dallying the pending bills.
After 26 days of dilly-dallying, the man who led Real Betis to seventh in the Primera Division last season was on Thursday belatedly named Steve Clarke's successor.
I've wasted nearly three hours here now, dilly-dallying along.
For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman's apron strings.
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