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Sentence Examples
| Think of Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, His disciples tarried and fell asleep. |
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| A whole life-time before this have I tarried amongst you: will ye not then understand? |
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| In a sense, the longer God tarried, the more humans took over his job of bringing about the perfect kingdom. |
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| Even your companion of Urantia days, who took post-graduate electives as she tarried for you, was becoming eager to progress. |
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| It was by this time the mirkest of the gloaming, for they had purposely tarried on the journey that they might enter Edinburgh at dusk. |
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| But one left me awroth and went in unto thy table. I tarried, till his anger was blown out. |
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| And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren. |
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| For too long have we tarried in the dismal sunless cities of the East. |
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| Iain tarried on regardless, however, and the Swiss roll cracked. |
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| I tarried in the book section, impressed that there was so much to do besides write: book canvasser, cleaner, coverer, cutter, finisher, jogger, mender, packer, and sewer. |
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| They tarried in the North for two months, visiting Wordsworth in the Lake District, and also one of his neighbors, a young poet just setting out on his career: Matthew Arnold. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Still he tarried in his chamber with his wife, Kleopatra, by his side, and heeded not the hunger and the wailings of the people. |
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| On the seventh day they reached the Gran Canaria, where they tarried to repair a leaky ship. |
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| He was not wordy, and he tarried but a moment, yet he explained his paralysis. |
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| He also bade them leave their fardels behind, as, if they tarried at York House, these could be easily sent after them. |
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| It was her turn to grow angry now, and well it was for him that he had not tarried. |
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| I tarried here long enough to smoke one cigarette and pay my devoirs to the noble profession of second-hand bookselling. |
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| The ripe fruit that had tarried so late on the old tree, was shaken down at last. |
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| I did but chance to pass and saw them at it, and so tarried a moment to see fair play. |
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| Graciously He acceded to their request to remain, and tarried with them two days. |
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| She was not fool enough to overplay her hand, so her greeting was still disdainful, but when he tarried she did not send him away. |
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| They trooped after us, and never more while we tarried in Fayal did we get rid of them. |
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| But after a minute or so he got up, thereby interrupting the blissfulness of sensation, for Maud would wonder why he tarried. |
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| And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple. |
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| So long as they tarried at the old hotel, it was their private property. |
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| He tarried so long that the nymph, or whatever it might be, came nearer. |
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| For lack of wind they tarried at Foreland, and went to land for to refresh them. |
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| Iff crept forward and tarried for a time talking to the boatbuilder. |
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| And Peter went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and tarried there. |
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| Patience tarried a moment to ask Rusha what had become of Emlyn. |
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| We reached Fond du Lac in the evening and tarried for the night. |
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| Oh, why had I tarried so long, losing so many precious minutes! |
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| Having reached the gate, they tarried there for a few minutes. |
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| Would we object if, for a few moments, he tarried here by the roadside? |
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| Pyncheon's message, the carpenter merely tarried to finish a small job, which he happened to have in hand, and then took his way towards the House of the Seven Gables. |
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