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

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

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

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

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

If had bin ony other dog—greyhound, bull, tarrier, or even a young sheep-dog—d'yo' think he'd ha' stopped wi' the one?

From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

What do you say to as nice a toy tarrier as was ever give to a lady?”

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.'

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

Come forth, son Jacob, why tarriest thou behind?

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

Those first words 'why tarriest thou' explain the other part.

From Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. Hatcher

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

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

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

In “Circe,” Miller weaves a story about the demigoddess with whom Odysseus tarried on his way home to Penelope.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2018

Standing at either end of the long, handsome bronze coffin were two big, dark policemen, mostly looking straight ahead, but moving their lips when some viewer tarried.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

“It took me and Mr. Leroy near ’bouts a hour to ride it, but we waren’t tarrying atall.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis