Example sentences for: dalliance

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

  • 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.

  • 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).

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

  • Jones' evidence, which I detail in a 15,000-word article in the current issue of the American Lawyer , includes clear proof, scattered through the public record, that then-governor Clinton's state trooper-bodyguard interrupted the then-24-year-old state employee on the job on May 8, 1991, and took her to meet Clinton--the boss of Jones' boss--alone in an upstairs suite in a Little Rock hotel, for the apparent purpose of sexual dalliance.

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