How to Use tarry in a Sentence

tarry

verb
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  • Tarry with us a while.
  • God save you if the steak in question tarried on the grill a second after the timer bell went off.
    — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • Democrats cannot afford to tarry too long, clinging to a thin sliver of hope that Biden’s legislative agenda might still pass in some form.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Other sea monster tales are less cosmic and more practical, acting as warnings to sailors or to people who tarry too close to the sea.
    — Regina Hansen, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • This unusual travel guide does not tarry with the practical needs of a typical tourist.
    — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The Sense8 movie doesn’t tarry with things like plot or dialogue or grounded reality.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
  • Ladies and gentlemen, do not tarry, for this is your opportunity to waltz your way into high society, make use of those dance cards, and find somebody to burn for.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 28 June 2021
  • Corbijn doesn’t tarry or wonder aloud about what transpired after the point at when this film abruptly ends, amid financial ruin and changing tastes in 1982.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
  • To avoid suspicion, the young men decided to tarry for a couple of days rather than cross into the neighboring socialist republic right away.
    — Longreads, 6 July 2022
  • As the city has tarried in passing new rules to legalize sidewalk vending, many complain that the lack of legal approval has left them vulnerable to harassment and abuse.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This is probably the GZK cutoff, the point beyond which cosmic rays can only tarry for so long before losing energy to ambient cosmic microwaves generated by a phase transition in the early universe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 May 2015
  • The banks, however, along with the governments that protected their interests, jealously guarded their domains, so Gevers tarried for two years in search of an agreeable regulatory environment for his venture.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Tarry with us a while.
  • God save you if the steak in question tarried on the grill a second after the timer bell went off.
    — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • Democrats cannot afford to tarry too long, clinging to a thin sliver of hope that Biden’s legislative agenda might still pass in some form.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Other sea monster tales are less cosmic and more practical, acting as warnings to sailors or to people who tarry too close to the sea.
    — Regina Hansen, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • This unusual travel guide does not tarry with the practical needs of a typical tourist.
    — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The Sense8 movie doesn’t tarry with things like plot or dialogue or grounded reality.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
  • Ladies and gentlemen, do not tarry, for this is your opportunity to waltz your way into high society, make use of those dance cards, and find somebody to burn for.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 28 June 2021
  • Corbijn doesn’t tarry or wonder aloud about what transpired after the point at when this film abruptly ends, amid financial ruin and changing tastes in 1982.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
  • To avoid suspicion, the young men decided to tarry for a couple of days rather than cross into the neighboring socialist republic right away.
    — Longreads, 6 July 2022
  • As the city has tarried in passing new rules to legalize sidewalk vending, many complain that the lack of legal approval has left them vulnerable to harassment and abuse.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This is probably the GZK cutoff, the point beyond which cosmic rays can only tarry for so long before losing energy to ambient cosmic microwaves generated by a phase transition in the early universe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 May 2015
  • The banks, however, along with the governments that protected their interests, jealously guarded their domains, so Gevers tarried for two years in search of an agreeable regulatory environment for his venture.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Tarry with us a while.
  • God save you if the steak in question tarried on the grill a second after the timer bell went off.
    — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • Democrats cannot afford to tarry too long, clinging to a thin sliver of hope that Biden’s legislative agenda might still pass in some form.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Other sea monster tales are less cosmic and more practical, acting as warnings to sailors or to people who tarry too close to the sea.
    — Regina Hansen, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • This unusual travel guide does not tarry with the practical needs of a typical tourist.
    — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The Sense8 movie doesn’t tarry with things like plot or dialogue or grounded reality.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018

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