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Tarry meaning
To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. | To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens. | To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
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Example sentences (18)
In the western province of Alberta, where many ferocious wildfires burned, vast deposits of thick crude oil, mixed with tarry sand, sit beneath the forest.
Labour's Sam Tarry, Fatima's local MP, told the apparent failure to provide adequate accommodation for her family represented a "cruel dereliction of duty".
Blood in the stool or black, tarry stools.
CCTV from earlier on Christmas Day showed staff at the hospital holding Ms Tarry back as she moved towards the ward's exit.
Sean Tarry’s charge did well once paired with Piere Strydom and another positive run is expected from this five-year-old Twice Over gelding.
Again, Tarry has a strong hand, with three runners in the top six in the betting.
Logistic challenges, comprising bad roads, have perennially affected distribution, as some of these heavy duty vehicles tarry as much as three days or more on the highway before getting to their destinations.
Sophomore attackman Alston Tarry has been Bucknell’s main facilitator, contributing eight assists to go along with five goals.
Last August, the immigration service made other changes to its policies, targeting students who overstay their visas; those who tarry too long can be banned from the country for three to 10 years.
Mr Tarry appeared at the High Court hearing in June - on his 90th birthday - when the family was awarded £165,000.
We do not need to tarry very long assessing blame, but rather commit to righting this wrong and spare our State further embarrassment.
Arguably the most explosive of these matters involved now-former representative Steve Lebsock, a Thornton Democrat accused of sexually harassing at least eleven women, including lobbyist Holly Tarry and fellow rep Faith Winter.
But once you find a price you like, don’t tarry.
For someone who smokes a lot of tarry cigarettes, even while recovering from a cold, she is the picture of milk-fed health.
On Tuesday, the police uncovered a pipe bomb beside a nursery school and a community centre in the Tarry Drive area.
An inscription on the gate to The Garden is recorded by Seneca in epistle XXI of Epistulae morales ad Lucilium : Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.
Beyond that, we echo the words of Maimonides based on the prophet Habakkuk (2:3) that though he may tarry, yet do we wait for him each day..
Her father hears how she is bested; and, her innocence being established, causes her to be set at large; but she, being minded to tarry no longer in the world, becomes a nun.