How to Use dalliance in a Sentence

dalliance

noun
  • Yet this dalliance would come back to bite him (more on that below).
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • Could she be engaged in a dalliance with someone of this name?
    — Ethan Kuperberg, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 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
  • Every tabletop gamer has had a dalliance with a trading card game or two.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • This isn't the first time that Fox has hinted about a Drake dalliance.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Stokes, meanwhile, at least has runs under his belt from his two-day dalliance with his county side.
    — Hector Vickers, New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • Then the dalliance comes to light and the golden boy finds himself on trial for the homicide.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 12 June 2024
  • Since moving to the West Coast my dalliances with lefse have lessened.
    — Nora Martinez Debenedetto, OregonLive.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Harbaugh said in February that would be his last dalliance with the league.
    — cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The chimp then returns home to his wife, satisfied with the brief dalliance in the single life.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2021
  • Kaia Gerber had a brief dalliance with the bombshell archetype this week.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Did [Ethan and Daphne] have some kind of little dalliance on the island?
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Her co-star was John Gilbert, with whom Garbo had an off-screen dalliance.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • Each dalliance had all the heat of a taboo affair, minus the burn of actual cheating.
    — Arianne Cohen, Marie Claire, 19 Sep. 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • Walker re-signed with the Lions after a brief dalliance with free agency this spring.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • There’s the president’s dalliance with white supremacists and armed right-wing groups, of which the state has its share.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The film will not be Prince-Bythewood's first dalliance with superheroes.
    — Libby Hill, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • The film will not be Prince-Bythewood's first dalliance with superheroes.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • This could resurrect old flames from the dead, as well as lead to unexpected dalliances with the biggest rake in town.
    — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The dalliance with Schumer comes in the midst of the Republican push for tax reform.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But male dunnocks of Europe and western Asia have wised up to female dalliances.
    — National Geographic, 20 May 2017
  • Brady became the first on Thursday to be asked publicly about his Dolphins dalliance.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2022
  • In an episode of the new season, Will has a dalliance with a 23 year old who brings his best friend along via iPhone.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
  • That brief dalliance is still being blamed for the British government’s slow response in testing for the virus.
    — Ari Altstedter, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Even before that though, there have been rumors about Williams’ potential dalliances with women for years.
    — James Factora, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Her baby, the result of a dalliance with Brad Pitt, was born April 19.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019

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