tarry

Example Sentences

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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

I see the final visitors depart, many tarrying until the last second.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

Thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt cover portions of sandbars.

From Seattle Times