tarry
verb (used without object)
to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn.
am tarrying
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present progressiveof tarry (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am tarrying on my way, losing myself in a maze of cheap fancies, while the reader perchance yawns and stretches his limbs as though for bed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various
I am tarrying in a very large, very populous, and excellently well built town.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
