Examples of tarry

• I strongly believe so, but time is going on, and the wheels of her chariot sadly tarry.

• I hope that authorities in areas where the problem of noisy neighbours is marked will not tarry in adopting them.

• I do not want to tarry much further because there is no point spinning out speeches once the point is made.

• The presence of tarry matter is specially significant.

• I do not want to tarry long on the new clause, because there are juicier morsels to come.

• We used to wait until the road was dug up, take out the tarry blocks and put them in the grate to burn.

• For the rest, a tarry residue of the kind most feared on holiday beaches was the main outcome of the fire.

• I have helped to take home a boy's body, wrapt not in a beautiful shroud, but in a covering of dirty tarry canvas.