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Meanings of dally in English
Synonyms
Examples for "romance"
Examples for "romance"
1
Just as Greece's odyssey enchanted Europe, surely hurling requires a new romance.
2
Natural philosophy, like war and romance, is best done by young men.
3
As an aside; there's a possible moment of confusion in romance too!
4
This caution, however, could benefit the romance zone in an interesting way!
5
I'm not so sure about the 'romance' part, either, to be honest.
1
But none take it as far as the Central American glasswing butterfly.
2
I mean, really: who breaks a butterfly on a Panamanian shell company?
3
The abdomen under the wings of the butterfly still represents the larva.
4
The chaos butterfly was a great enough prize to fuel anyone's ambitions.
5
The chink in his armour could be the 100m butterfly final today.
1
Villa, however, continue to flirt with the beginnings of a relegation problem.
2
I expected him to flirt or ask how I liked the painting.
3
Comes in here every few days, just to flirt with the girls.
4
If Mansfield thought to flirt with his wife, he could think again.
5
But in this street there are no fair neighbors to flirt with.
1
Boil the roe fifteen minutes in salted water; then drain and mash.
2
The first reports on this superhero mash-up did indeed emerge in August.
3
Nonetheless, the motivation and momentum for media mash-ups will persist, he said.
4
Puree potatoes through a moule food mill, potatoe ricer or simply mash.
5
I thank you for your consideration, but please no more mash notes.
1
Eve is somewhat of a coquette even in the state of innocence.
2
Angélique could coquette in half-meanings with any lady of honor at Court.
3
She might as well have played the coquette in speech as writing.
4
Claudine was a coquette; but she had a great many other vices.
5
The torments of jealousy the cruel coquette made me endure were horrible.
1
She is going there to copy it, not to philander with Alec.
2
So it won't matter if he does want to philander, George.
3
There is nothing particularly glamorous about the way Philander plays his cricket.
4
Wanderers will play host to Vernon Philander's final Test for South Africa.
5
Professor Porter and Mr. Philander were deeply interested in examining the skeletons.
1
Even to the end she would deck herself and coquet to her glass.
2
Without any need of self-restraint, no wish to coquet ever entered her head.
3
What think you, Mr Walpole, of our two coquet Irish beauties?
4
We have no such character here as a coquet, but alas!
5
What you want is a chance to coquet with him.
1
In rallying, people can have a chat up until we set off.
2
Then, it is said, he tried to chat up GlaxoSmithKline but got nowhere.
3
Let Appleby chat up the witness, predictable waste of time that would be.
4
His first few attempts to chat up women were met with blunt rejection.
5
Oh, yeah, there's the guy you want to chat up about Nikolaev history.
Usage of dally in English
1
Criminals are becoming obstinate; they dally forever, clogging the processes of justice.
2
I thank you for that little confidence; but I must not dally.
3
To avoid pursuing that thought any further, I dally over the newspaper.
4
Sire and sons returned from the cemetery invigorated for their dally labours.
5
Maitland did not dally long in the Levant after getting Barton's letter.
6
Freda was not one who would dally and trifle with her heart.
7
A dark design came to her to dally with him no longer.
8
Say rather of mind too good to doubt, or dally, or temporize.
9
She was pleased, maiden-like, to dally, and shrank from being formally bound.
10
We've got no contract with the wench, so don't dally with her.
11
But don't dally here, for who knows when soldiers will come this way?
12
Shepherd, if you know your danger, why do you dally here?
13
Very well, Sir Richard, since it seems we are forced to dally here.
14
The subject was too disagreeable for him to dally with it.
15
You may dally as long as you like by the roadside.
16
Ireland, too, must be brought into line; they must not dally any longer.
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