How do you use Dalliance in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like dawdling or gambol, plus the exact meaning.
Dalliance meaning
- Playful flirtation; amorous play.
- An episode of dabbling.
- A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
Synonyms of Dalliance
Using Dalliance
- The main meaning on this page is: Playful flirtation; amorous play. | An episode of dabbling. | A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
- Useful related words include: dawdling, gambol, romp, frolic.
- In the example corpus, dalliance often appears in combinations such as: dalliance with, her dalliance, brief dalliance.
Context around Dalliance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dalliance
- In this selection, "dalliance" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brief, expensive and first stand out and add context to how "dalliance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a brief dalliance as punk and a brief dalliance with scientology. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dalliance" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dalliance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her dalliance with Pant wasn't the actress' first encounter with a cricketer, if one believes the grapevine. (18 words)
Suslova's dalliance with a Spaniard in late spring and Dostoyevsky's gambling addiction and age ended their relationship. (19 words)
Fortunately, there is an end to Agatha's suffering, and she experiences love, however briefly, in her dalliance with Lord Ledger. (21 words)
Furthermore, if West African cuisine is a blind spot to you, and your first dalliance with northern Nigerian cooking is Ikoyi’s version of (a fuzzy, addictive dried beef floss), you might end up more confused than before. (38 words)
In courting Sisi, has the EU already forgotten the embarrassment of its dalliance with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi or Egypt’s own Hosni Mubarak, who were dropped with alacrity when the Arab Spring began in 2011? (37 words)
John Lydon still has the fire in his belly and the bile in his brain, 40 years after starting Public Image Ltd. following a brief dalliance as punk rock’s most notorious anarchic agitator. (34 words)
In courting Sisi, has the EU already forgotten the embarrassment of its dalliance with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi or Egypt’s own Hosni Mubarak, who were dropped with alacrity when the Arab Spring began in 2011? (37 words)
Example sentences (12)
Fortunately, there is an end to Agatha's suffering, and she experiences love, however briefly, in her dalliance with Lord Ledger.
I am but a man, with a 2070 Super, who looks upon this as a lovely but also expensive dalliance that maybe, one day in the distant future, I’ll get to enjoy.
One of the head authors on that paper was Hal Puthoff, an electrical engineer who'd taken an interest in the paranormal after a brief dalliance with Scientology.
Ivy indeed had a dalliance with Thomas once upon a time, which involved making out and falling back on a bed together.
Her dalliance with Pant wasn't the actress' first encounter with a cricketer, if one believes the grapevine.
In courting Sisi, has the EU already forgotten the embarrassment of its dalliance with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi or Egypt’s own Hosni Mubarak, who were dropped with alacrity when the Arab Spring began in 2011?
Furthermore, if West African cuisine is a blind spot to you, and your first dalliance with northern Nigerian cooking is Ikoyi’s version of (a fuzzy, addictive dried beef floss), you might end up more confused than before.
John Lydon still has the fire in his belly and the bile in his brain, 40 years after starting Public Image Ltd. following a brief dalliance as punk rock’s most notorious anarchic agitator.
Meanwhile, in an even more ridiculous B-plot, a Spanish visitor named Don Adriano de Amado is set to punish Costard, a local fool, for a dalliance with a local girl, Jaquenetta.
Plus sweeper-keeper gaffes, the universe in which Ed Woodward is regarded as a superstar and surprising news about one of our AFC Telegraph team members and a dalliance with skateboarding.
TV has transmogrified it into the strange business of Raphael and Holland, which sounds like the incredible dalliance of a Renaissance painter with the Hague School.
Suslova's dalliance with a Spaniard in late spring and Dostoyevsky's gambling addiction and age ended their relationship.
Common combinations with dalliance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: