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

Thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt cover portions of sandbars.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

The tarry oil, which someone had bought from her village witch, fumed in black clouds.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

It 's that little tarrier dog of yours, Mrs. Hopkins, that will be after worryin' the mice an' the rats, an' the thaves too, I 'll warrant.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

The rat tarrier iz not so mutch dog, az a personal matter, az the Nufoundland iz, but he haz more grit to the square inch.

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

The cliverest lad of his hands and the best of his feet for twenty mile around—as full o' pluck as a tarrier an' as kindly-hearted as a wench.

From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray

I am out 2 vases, a quart of nu milk, and one tarrier.

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

Yus, as old Barnum and Buggins, or tigers and tarrier pups.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various

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

From Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. Hatcher

He went up the path, and stood before the door waiting, when a high thin voice, like an evening wind, called from within, "Come in and fear not, thou that tarriest on the threshold."

From Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

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

I showed as brown a chest, and as hard a hand, as the tarriest tar of them all.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.'

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

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

After the reporters’ questions dwindled, he tarried in the hallway, leaning against a column, signing autographs on visitors’ entry cards like a Broadway star, patiently enjoying it.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2019

Lori had a story she wanted to tell me about Evelyn Y. Davis, the woman at whose grave we tarried.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2018

It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Sor Asunci6n said, as if she had asked a question and I was tarrying in my answer.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez