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

Looking at the rubbery white octopus chunks bobbing in the tarry mass of liver, I rejected an entire meal for the first time since childhood.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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, 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

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

You see, the old tarrier was crossing Saint Nicholas Avenue, with a big market basket full of provisions—the family dinner, I suppose.

From Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Nobody seemed to side with him, and everybody seemed ready—when once the tongues were loosed—to say a word for Jud and "th' best tarrier i'Riggan."

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

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

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

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 Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thar iz one thing certain, if i ever do own a Nufoundland, or rat tarrier, they hav got tew be thorobred.

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

And thou, Lexiphanes, comest thou, or tarriest here?'

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

Then said the portress to the cateress, 'O my Sister, why tarriest thou?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne

O Brettinoro!  wherefore tarriest still, Since forth of thee thy family hath gone, And many, hating evil, join'd their steps?

From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Henry Francis Cary

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

Why tarriest thou to plunge thee in the gulph Of the deep inner gloom, but flittest here, In twilight, on the lonely verge of Hell, Far from the other ghosts, and Hela's throne?

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

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

History is filled with cautionary tales of people who tarried too long on the stage.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2011

Here now for seven days they tarried, for the time was at hand for another parting which they were loth to make.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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