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

Thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt cover portions of sandbars.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

We did not tarry, but Charles, who is ever practical in his considerations, swept in to secure the man’s musket and powder horn.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

“Yes,” said Sister McCandless, “that sure is a praying man. I tell you, it ain’t every shepherd tarries before the Lord for his flock like Father James does.”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

"You'll surely remember th' little Yarkshire tarrier as strayed into th' village in the summer o' '14," said William.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various

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

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

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

He's th' best tarrier fur rats as tha ivver seed.

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

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

I showed as brown a chest, and as hard a hand, as the tarriest tar of them all.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

Answered I, 'My name is Duck, and I am of the bird kind;' and I added, 'But thou, why tarriest thou in this place till this time?'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Wherefore tarriest thou me thus here, with such fables?

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse 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

Weeping has tarried for the night — more than one night, through 10 days, now, of doubt and disappointment.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020

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

The celebration continued late into the cool August night and trickled into the following day, as the Goble and Kane clans tarried to savor their last moments together before heading back to their workaday lives.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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