How do you use Shilly in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts.
Context around Shilly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shilly
- In this selection, "shilly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, smug, welby, shallying and shallied stand out and add context to how "shilly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include his smug shilly shallying has and welby shilly shallied and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shilly" sits close to words such as aabb, aabc and aacta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shilly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That Scott Morrison, for all his smug shilly-shallying, has been dragged feet-first into a kind of Keynesian socialism. (20 words)
Welby shilly-shallied and bleated out a weasel-worded formula claiming that Ineson had "not heard" his apology at a Lambeth Palace meeting. (23 words)
Welby shilly-shallied and bleated out a weasel-worded formula claiming that Ineson had "not heard" his apology at a Lambeth Palace meeting. (23 words)
That Scott Morrison, for all his smug shilly-shallying, has been dragged feet-first into a kind of Keynesian socialism. (20 words)
Example sentences (2)
That Scott Morrison, for all his smug shilly-shallying, has been dragged feet-first into a kind of Keynesian socialism.
Welby shilly-shallied and bleated out a weasel-worded formula claiming that Ineson had "not heard" his apology at a Lambeth Palace meeting.