tarry
verb (used without object)
to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn.
has tarried
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present perfectof tarry (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Weeping has tarried for the night — more than one night, through 10 days, now, of doubt and disappointment.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020
Running two hours and 40 minutes, The Comedians has everything but economy, and Director Peter Glenville has tarried with a story that might have been twice as good at half the length.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
He has tarried long120 And lonely in the world: the vision comes To animate his hopes—to say, Live, live With me, for evermore!
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan
"Your father said so before you," replied Jonathan, malignantly; "and yet it has tarried thus long."
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
