Sentence examples for tarried for a while from inspiring English sources

Bessas tarried for a while near the town of Narni, which controlled the direct route from the Gothic capital, Ravenna, over the Apennines to Rome, and there met and defeated the Gothic vanguard in a skirmish.

19 Caesar tarried for a few days in their territory, until he had burnt all the villages and buildings, and cut down the corn-crops.

"Yes, you have indeed seen much," he wrote, "but tarry yet a while, for the greatest is yet to come.

"Lurk" for a while.

We tarried a while in the middle of the Fourth Street Bridge to stare at the concrete channel of what is euphemistically called the Los Angeles River.

Perhaps the hummingbird will tarry a while longer.

He tarries a while in Russia, sampling caviar and adultery (with a superbly soignée Tilda Swinton) before World War II intrudes.

For a while he….

For a while anyway.

For a while.

That worked — for a while.