Sentence examples for tarrying from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of tarry
It is a bad sign that the Congress, beholden to lobbies, is tarrying over the simple matter of equalising student loans.
For James Ching, a former deputy attorney general in California, Judge Carney's opinion is "quixotic" and errs by attributing all the tarrying to California state courts when federal courts are responsible for "46.2% of the total delay and dysfunction".
The justices may be tarrying simply because they have a lot to consider.
The president is not tarrying in order to bring himself glory or riches or to ransack the liberties of the American people.
For James Ching, a former deputy attorney-general in California, Mr Carney's opinion is "quixotic" and errs by attributing all the tarrying to California state courts when federal courts are responsible for "46.2% of the total delay and dysfunction".
In this dispute most Puritans shied away from extremes and supported some form of episcopacy, but a small number went beyond even Cartwright and Field in seeking to effect immediately a "reformation without tarrying for any".
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.
Days before the arrival of Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, and smack dab in the middle of confusions to do with the custody of Chen Guangcheng, the boffins in charge of America's foreign affairs have made things much tougher than they might have done, had they tarried for some weeks or months.
In a sense, the longer God tarried, the more humans took over his job of bringing about the perfect kingdom.
It would be easy to tarry here, hypnotised by these graceful oceanic wanderers.
Visit Tate Modern's excellent Rothko show – it ends on 1 February, so do not tarry – and you'll see the great man trying to get around this rule, sometimes fetishising the edges of his canvases as frames, sometimes continuing his surface on to them so as to make them seem sculptural.
