dally

Preposition: on

ball: He dallied on the ball too much usually geting caught in posession which lead to a few goals being conceded.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Then let them come on foot; We may not dally time with great command.
• long: You may dally as long as you like by the roadside.
• also: Austria, a very conservative country, also dallied with it.
• still: He was the giant of the new realist theater at a time when our West End was still dallying with drawing room comedies.
• n't: But do n't dally: many scholarships have lengthy applications procedures and deadlines several months ahead of the MBA application deadline.
• entertainingly: Yet he entertainingly dallies with the subgenre in the saints ' stories that the nuns, including María, drink in.

Used with why or when

where: This time we dallied where appropriate ( many places ) and I was astounded.

Preposition: in

• possession: Mention for Francey who had a good game at right back, a couple of dallies in possession aside.
• garden: While I dally here in the gardens of philosophy, my Elena is at home sharpening knives. ' 'Have we neglected Nature?

Preposition: with

• subgenre: Yet he entertainingly dallies with the subgenre in the saints ' stories that the nuns, including María, drink in.
• woman: While you were dilly dallying with that woman over there my daughter died.

Preposition: for

while: You could dally for a while along Beacon Street, an artful string of cafés, boutiques and galleries.