tarry

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

Federal Reserve to tame inflation are driving down U.S. economic activity while China continues to tarry in returning to pre-pandemic levels, said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC.

From Reuters ● Aug. 21, 2023

A tarry odor like hot macadam or turpentine, but with a woodsy edge.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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 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

He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow.

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

He's th' best tarrier fur rats as tha ivver seed.

From That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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 Gottschall, Rudolf von

When doggy men beyond ocean talk about a terrier, they usually pronounce it tarrier, and not terrier, as we mostly call him on this bank of the Atlantic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

An ill-natured old man and an old chawed up bull tarrier 259 are just the things tew set side bi side sumwhare in the sun, and fite flies for amuzement!

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

A person who could appreciate the virtues of "th' best tarrier i' Riggan," could not be regarded wholly with contempt, or even indifference.

From That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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 Melville, Herman

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

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Nay, if thy mind be forward with thy years, The time is lost thou tarriest.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

But this it is that doth displease me: So oft thou tarriest at the tavern, While I am tethered at the door.

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'—ACTS xxii. 6-16.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

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