Example Sentences

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We had tarried at the old Beaux-Arts police headquarters on Main Street, built in 1914, where Oswald was interrogated after his arrest and where Jack Ruby shot Oswald.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2013

"All bets are off," she responded, because Wilson had tarried too long in California.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches, deciding that it had tarried long enough over a latter-day reformation, voted to merge with the 700,000-member Evangelical & Reformed Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

The newspaper intimated that he had tarried at a mughouse, had not been able to appear.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the crowd marched off to make bullets and celebrate liberty and independence in the taverns, I realized dark was fast falling, and I had tarried overly long.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson