tarrying

Example Sentences

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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