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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dally .
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Examples
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He based his tale on accounts from friends who dallied there, and picked up lore that survives today.
Nina Burleigh: Remembering Too Well Nina Burleigh 2011
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But can you imagine what would happen if Sarah Palin snuck away from Todd and dallied with, say, an Alaskan wilderness guide or a conservative radio host?
Caryl Rivers: Virtuous Political Women? Maybe Not Caryl Rivers 2011
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In your search for the Maps needed to help you along in the game, if you dilly-dallied too much, NPCs could actually beat you to them.
Not Now, Honey, I'm Exploring SVGL 2009
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He based his tale on accounts from friends who dallied there, and picked up lore that survives today.
Nina Burleigh: Remembering Too Well Nina Burleigh 2011
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He could've at least put the Lt. Governor in charge while he dallied about in case some actual business had to be accomplished!
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Also have drug behind a horse with a rope dallied around the saddle horn, but no more than a quarter mile or so.
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I could have otherwise dallied around for years, interviewing cheesemakers on a sort of casual offhand basis and never really pulled it all together.
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If you followed any individual butterfly along its meandering course it slowed, dallied and looped around every blossom and nectar source in sight, and yet never once landed; in truth, they kept flying for so long it was hard to believe that the microgram of wing muscle on these insects could sustain such marathon efforts.
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Also have drug behind a horse with a rope dallied around the saddle horn, but no more than a quarter mile or so.
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He based his tale on accounts from friends who dallied there, and picked up lore that survives today.
Nina Burleigh: Remembering Too Well Nina Burleigh 2011
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