tarry
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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
As the big cat pounces, its quarry bolts forward into a tarry pool.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 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
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