tarry

Bright red stool, dark or tarry stool, or mucus in the stool can be associated with bleeding somewhere in the gastrointestinal tract, colon, or rectum.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

In the western province of Alberta, where many ferocious wildfires burned, huge deposits of thick crude oil, mixed with tarry sand, sit beneath the forest and near the snaking Athabasca River.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

But thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt cover portions of sandbars, oil-speckled rocks and bushes line the shore and the wreckage of a tank car juts from the middle of the river.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Soon it occurred to her that there was no longer any reason to tarry here.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

In one clever bit of staging, Hamlet tarries in the forefront as the king and queen canoodle in back and guards race by mid-stage between them, fresh from sighting the former king’s ghost.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

Mansionization foes, meanwhile, complained that out-of-scale homes have continued to be erected as the city tarries on citywide fixes, necessitating more immediate measures to protect neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2015

If he, Gephardt or any other potential candidate tarries even past Thursday, he would also be shut out of the important May 5 primary in Ohio.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he wanders too far or tarries too long beyond the state's borders, he had better look back and ask, "What's Thelma up to now?"

From Time Magazine Archive

“Yes,” said Sister McCandless, “that sure is a praying man. I tell you, it ain’t every shepherd tarries before the Lord for his flock like Father James does.”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

What do you say to as nice a toy tarrier as was ever give to a lady?”

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

He resembles the rat tarrier in countenance, and skratches hiz hed, az natral az a distrikt skool boy, and undoubtedly for the same reason.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Every branch, every flower, became a hand of the sun's clock for the impatient tarrier, while its seconds and minutes moved haltingly forward.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall

I may want a toy tarrier for a present, or a few rats, or a score or two of sparrers, or—eh, Harry?—to see the lady go through the dove performance.

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

Thar iz one thing certain, if i ever do own a Nufoundland, or rat tarrier, they hav got tew be thorobred.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Peace, who tarriest too long; Peace, with delight in thy train; Come, come back to our prayer!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

Wing thy flight from hence on the morrow, for if thou tarriest with the bats, owls, vultures and ravens, which have thought to nestle here, thou wilt inevitably share their fate.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott

There is danger alike for my father and thee, if thou tarriest longer.

From The Vale of Cedars by Grace Aguilar

Those first words 'why tarriest thou' explain the other part.

From Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. Hatcher

Quoth I, "My name is 'duck,' and I am of the bird-kind; but thou, why tarriest thou in this place till now?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne

This time, we deliberately tarried for the scores of curious locals and drivers who wanted to know about our bike, our route, our motivation and “Are you still talking?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

However, ocean-faring ships tarried in San Pedro Bay as crews struggled to keep up with the pace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

Weeping has tarried for the night — more than one night, through 10 days, now, of doubt and disappointment.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020

But while the shah tarried in Egypt and Morocco, an Iranian mob briefly seized the American Embassy in February.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2019

The celebration continued late into the cool August night and trickled into the following day, as the Goble and Kane clans tarried to savor their last moments together before heading back to their workaday lives.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

I see the final visitors depart, many tarrying until the last second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

My mind went back to midnight prayers and long, hot, sweaty tarrying services.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021

The challenge for Churchill residents is to encourage the bears to head to the tundra without tarrying in town.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2019

The Rev. Everly Thomas is the only spirit who is aware of where and why everyone is stuck, and he has his own reasons for tarrying.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2017

At the end of the corridor near the elevators, a little storelike affair had been set up; it sold prints and art books, and Luba halted there, tarrying.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick