Example sentences for: tarry

How can you use “tarry” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.

  • In an editorial titled "Starr Should Not Tarry," the Post Express cautioned the independent counsel not to "lose sight of the broader picture": It said his office was created not only "to assure the unfettered investigation of charges against the highest government officials" but also to ensure "that a prosecutorial judgement be rendered in a timely manner."


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