TARRY in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for TARRY, such as:

1. Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.
2. Even she caught the faint, tarry scent of the flowers.
3. We can't tarry if we want to get to the airport on time.
4. I must tarry at home, and keep watch over my little Pearl.
5. Two old boys tarried on the street corner discussing cattle.

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 Meanings and Examples of TARRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tarry
 v.  delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait
Classic Sentence:
1  Well," answered the Templar, "an thou wilt tarry there, remember I have redeemed word and glove.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  Thou seest," said Isaac, "how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Even she caught the faint, tarry scent of the flowers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she would tarry yet awhile longer.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  I felt no inclination to tarry the event; and, resolving to seek medical aid on my own responsibility, I quitted the chamber.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  I must tarry at home, and keep watch over my little Pearl.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
7  "You had better have tarried there to fight for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre," said the Templar.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  The fifth of their number alone tarried in the lists long enough to be greeted by the applauses of the spectators, amongst whom he retreated, to the aggravation, doubtless, of his companions' mortification.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  They were soon after joined by Front-de-Boeuf, who had been disturbed in his tyrannic cruelty in the manner with which the reader is acquainted, and had only tarried to give some necessary directions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Thou hast tarried long," he said; "I have been as if stretched on red-hot iron with very impatience.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
13  So the women of the field were weary, and they tarried over their work, and they were far from the road when we came.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART FOUR
14  The quick light shower had drawn off, tarrying in clusters of diamonds among the shrubs of the quadrangle where an exhalation was breathed forth by the blackened earth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  We can't tarry if we want to get to the airport on time.
2  Two old boys tarried on the street corner discussing cattle.
3  Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.