tarry

But we could not tarry long there out in the open.

The ticking watch urged him not to tarry.

His stiff blue shorts were striped with tarry blackness.

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.

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.