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

“Yet you yourself cling to it with your dirty hands. I shall not tarry here. My terms or nothing. Make your choice.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

She tarries a moment longer, then peels off, and speeding like a falling star, shoots off into a cloud and is gone.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

It iz now to-morrow, and the tarrier don’t seem tew cum back.

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

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

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

He's th' best tarrier for owt as tha ivver seed.

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

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

If Adam kept a tarrier, or Eve a poodle, the laps of ages hav washed away the fakt.

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

Come forth, son Jacob, why tarriest thou behind?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt

Here’s the wind a-blowing in till I’m nigh feared o’ losing my ears, and all the lace like to go up the chimney, while thou tarriest chatting yonder.

From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt

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

Then said to me the glorious Power, standing in stature as a giant,—'Come! why tarriest thou?

From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

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

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

That night, the Ghost shows me how to climb far higher than the landing where Taryn and I tarried the last time.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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