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How to use shilly-shallying in a sentence

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We can live with either, but this kind of shilly-shallying only serves to destabilize the industry and diminish the game.
Though many of them were shilly-shallying to come to the stage, some were sportive enough to take part.
Not even knowing to write the alphabets, he can read newspapers flawlessly without shilly-shallying, no matter how tough the word is.
There's no point shilly-shallying about the shallows, you've got to wade into the deep area.
However, I have been shilly-shallying, due to the cramped space of my flat and the densely inhabited area where I reside.
The Government's shilly-shallying and reluctance to act only led to thousands of disputes simply getting out of control.
Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
At which point we wondered why the whole economy didn't just base itself on the dollar, and cut out all of this shilly-shallying.
He had had enough of the shilly-shallying that now dominates the game's upper echelons.
After nine months of shilly-shallying, the Vice President and his operatives have failed to bluff the General Account Office.
He said he wouldn't negotiate with North Korea, but after a year of shilly-shallying he began quietly doing exactly that.
Taxpayers, of course, have to pay for this shilly-shallying, directly in extra pay for legislators and through indirect costs.
One result of this shilly-shallying is that much of the talk about liberty becomes a self-serving charade.
Any shilly-shallying on that front would be dealt with swiftly and effectively by the ladies in the back kitchen.
These and other policies have been damaged by backtracking, U-turns, watering down and general shilly-shallying.
That's right, after shilly-shallying about with the likes of Munt and MacLennan in last week's episode we're now back in the major leagues again.
For, while we are hesitating, while we are shilly-shallying, while we are discussing, Africa is dying.
The people in the asbestos mining region are concerned, and the government's shilly-shallying is not enough for them.
The three girlfriends are chiefly excuses for Bobby's shilly-shallying, so we get glaring patches of clashing color revolving around a colorless blob.
I think the point that Bishop Baines is making is that the intelligentsia ought to face up to this fact and stop shilly-shallying about it and trying to pretend it's somehow not very significant.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Blair should stop shilly-shallying and name that departure day to give those who stay a fighting chance.
Wilde is highly critical of Lane's handling of the matter of publishing the play and abhors Lane's shilly-shallying.
The authors include Tim Lamb, the ECB chief executive who was at the heart of the shilly-shallying shambles about Zimbabwe.
At one point she is seen upstage in stasis and her silence is a brilliant counterpart to Tregorin's shilly-shallying.
They are shilly-shallying still, dragging out this painful saga until they have to notify the FA next Wednesday that Rio will be requesting a personal hearing.
There was going to be no shilly-shallying, no highfalutin theorizings.
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