Sentence examples for tarries from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of tarry
The longer Raúl tarries over placing the economy on a sustainable footing, the greater the risk that a post-Castro leadership will be swept away on a tide of popular anger.Time for America to get over its 50-year tantrumFew will mourn this regime.
If the court tarries over its judgment, there might not be enough time to organise a referendum even if one is allowed.
Nighttime loneliness leads to tentative companionship, yet the arrogant jinni still tarries with human women, while the golem frets over both his nature and her own — whether she will "pass" as human or do harm as something else.
At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
The camera tarries with fields of oil seed rape, nodding foxgloves and shivering primroses until they start to look monstrous, every bit as alien as the relics of 19th-century architecture and décor that so exercised the surrealists.
Matt Dillon zips by ahead of Romola Garai and an obscure TV presenter vogues for the cameras while Colin Firth tarries in the background.
Already, each of the village's ramshackle homes accommodates up to 20 refugees.If there are able-bodied men among the displaced, they do not tarry long.
Inside them, the world's largest dumptrucks ferry paydirt to nearby separation plants, where the tarry soil is crushed and diluted until bitumen can be skimmed off.
Even countries like Russia, until recently the industry's great hope, are rolling up the welcome mat.Nowadays, "Big Oil" reigns supreme in only a relatively small niche: the most technologically challenging and expensive projects, such as drilling in deep water, or turning tarry sand into something more useful.
Transforming Alberta's tarry muck into a barrel of oil is an energy-intensive process that produces about three times the emissions of a barrel of conventional light sweet crude.Having woken belatedly to the danger, the Canadian government is now scrambling to secure an exception.
But perhaps the hordes moving to the coast know something the academics do not; likewise the trippers squeezed into a ribbon of tarry, cigarette-strewn sand.
