tarry
verb (used without object)
to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn.
will tarry
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future tenseof tarry.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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They will tarry in the art museums of each city about six weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I will tarry here beneath the three lindens and see what may come of this whereof the witchwife spake."
From A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field
“We will tarry here no longer,” said Garnet, “I am not proof against these portents of ill.”
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
That duty, Garret, will best comport with your mad-cap humour—there may be pith in it: so, onward, man, until you are challenged by some out-post of the Foul One—we will tarry here for your report.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
The residue will tarry for a shakedown and a rest.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
