How to Use dalliance in a Sentence

dalliance

noun
Definition of dalliancenext
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  • Since moving to the West Coast my dalliances with lefse have lessened.
    — Nora Martinez Debenedetto, OregonLive.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • His own dalliances, however, are at least as famous as his accomplishments.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2017
  • Still, Ireland has had dalliances with euro-skepticism.
    — Peter Flanagan, Bloomberg.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Simon and Blue are left to wonder just who the object of their digital dalliance really is.
    — Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Rumors abounded of Snowdon’s dalliance with fashion models.
    — Kate Samuelson, Time, 12 Dec. 2017
  • One wonders whether there is anything more to the American Right’s dalliance with the Le Pens of the world than jackboot envy.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Then, as now, extramarital dalliance was not uncommon among the men and women who moved in the capital’s social and political circles.
    — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Hell, Kim Kardashian West said the only thing that rescued her hair from her two-week dalliance with platinum blonde was rigorous use of Olaplex.
    — refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Now a junior on a struggling 8-25 team, Uribe was part of St. Anthony’s two-year dalliance with elite high school basketball.
    — Adam Zuvanich, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Clinton exploded this arrangement by having a dalliance with Monica Lewinsky and lying about it under oath.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • However, the dalliance with spring is a fleeting one, as another Arctic front enters early Saturday with midwinter chill back in full force for much of next week.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Once their dalliance is over, the air goes out of the movie.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Her ninth child was kicked out of the house at age 18 for a dalliance with a girl.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
  • But then her dalliance with Che would make no sense, instead of all the sense in the world.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022
  • This isn't the first time that Fox has hinted about a Drake dalliance.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The goal is clear: The less the public knows about his dalliance with a St. Louis woman, the better.
    — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Did [Ethan and Daphne] have some kind of little dalliance on the island?
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Yet this dalliance would come back to bite him (more on that below).
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • Her baby, the result of a dalliance with Brad Pitt, was born April 19.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • Could she be engaged in a dalliance with someone of this name?
    — Ethan Kuperberg, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The chimp then returns home to his wife, satisfied with the brief dalliance in the single life.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2021
  • Very much present amid the dalliances and deceptions is the richness of Coward’s script.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Audubon was born in the French colony of Les Cayes in what is now Haiti, the product of his father’s dalliance with a chambermaid.
    — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
  • Harbaugh said in February that would be his last dalliance with the league.
    — cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
  • His heroine is born of a dalliance between northern and southern air off the coast of Japan.
    — Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2021
  • Curtis lost and returned to the GOP fold as the best way to push his ideas — but his short dalliance as a Democrat hurt him later.
    — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Our awkward dalliance outside the school dance, he in his prep school blazer and me with my middle-class clothes and high hair.
    — Kim O'Hara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Even before the threat of a full Russian invasion, Ukraine’s dalliance with the West had cost it dearly.
    — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • There's a dalliance with a local, a motel room redecoration, and enough kooky hijinks to keep readers frantically flipping pages to find out where all of this leads.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
  • Those dalliances cemented her abiding love of tweed, sailor stripes, cashmere knits, and—thanks to the indulgent Duke—gigantic love jewels, worn in rule-breaking multiples.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2024

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