Example sentences for: dalliance

How can you use “dalliance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In this context, it's not clear whether the writer or the subject appreciates the irony of the profile's key scene--Spielberg fatuously defending the behavior of his close personal friend Bill Clinton ("Morality is defined not just by a sexual dalliance") as he puffs contentedly on a cigar.

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • Moreover, Hick would not necessarily have been Eleanor's only dalliance; much has also been made of her relationship with a New York state trooper and presidential bodyguard, Earl Miller, who was 13 years her junior.

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  • The most striking thing to me about McCain of late is his continuing dalliance with American Prospect- type liberalism.


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