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How to use dilly-dally in a sentence

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

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His attitude has been to dilly-dally and turn down proposals on firms on trivial grounds.
Don't four-year-olds often dilly-dally, stall, and do just about everything slowly?
How should we deal with judges who sleep on the bench, dilly-dally over judgments or commit crimes?
Why dilly-dally with teenage angst when you can bring on the Giant Robots, that was my motto.
They cannot dilly-dally with the issue as the deadline has been set.
It's just as important not to dilly-dally while you get it down, too.
The season is fleeting and supplies often limited so you can't dilly-dally about buying them individually.
If, on the other hand, we dilly-dally during this precious time, we will lose out and other countries will be only too ready to fill the gap.
I do agree with him that this is a matter that we do not want to dilly-dally on for too long.
This is very important because the Leader of the Opposition did not dilly-dally.
While the Liberals dilly-dally and the Reformers pontificate about Adam Smith, farmers need help.
Currently the government will dither and dilly-dally as it is wont to do with a number of these types of issues.
Just don't hmm and haw about it or, to use one of my father's phrases, dilly-dally.
Don't expect either Mr. Howard or Mr. Rosen to dilly-dally.
There is less time to dilly-dally on the road to building a business.
I know my old man once told me to follow the van but not to dilly-dally on the way.
This is not the time to dilly-dally any further or to dither away on such an important matter that is going to cause catastrophic results should this legislation proceed.
A positive reading, Now to continue my trip, No time to dilly-dally, Ta-ta and toodle-pip.
Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
My fear is that the Conservative government will dilly-dally about and we will see the Scots vote against independence and still be left with this unfair situation.
Examples from Classical Literature
Spain continued to dilly-dally and evade the question of her responsibility.
It also means, to trifle, to dilly-dally, to go round about a subject.
Daidle, to dilly-dally, to do a thing in a slow, sluggish manner.
There will be some real shooting here if you dilly-dally any longer.
He sed it was jest this dilly-dally policy that had ruined us.
He says it was one o' them plans as dilly-dally is death on.
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