How to Use tar in a Sentence

tar

noun

• Video from the scene shows traffic cones and warning signs posted around pools of tar that are covered with sand.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Every portrait was tar-dipped to reflect the proportion of each man’s life spent in prison.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Quite a scrumptious array of rich and creamy aromas of licorice, tar and cherry parfait.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Either way, the addition of tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and others is great for Windows 11 users.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 May 2023
• Beachgoers have been dealing with tar balls since before Texas was a state.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Aromas of red fruit with a lick of tar, violet and primroses.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• The timbers — some as thick as tree trunks, others no longer than a school ruler — retain a rich, earthy scent, still a little piney from the tar used as caulking.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• We are stuck like chicken feathers to tar—for lovely always.
  — Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
• These soy candles that are infused with pine, cedar and birch tar essential oils are the next best thing to being outside.
  — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Round, hefty, bright aromas of blackberries, red cherries and tar.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Cipriano was paid $500 to smuggle the drugs, described in the court documents as an unknown weight of black tar heroin, into the prison.
  — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• In the West, where most heroin is sold as a stickier substance known as black tar, fentanyls had been less widespread.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021
• On the exterior, the house is characterized by the use of tar and gravel roofing.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Working up high, exposed to the sun with no shade in sight, and near boiling tar, roofers must tolerate far more heat than most other jobs.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Crews also have been collecting tar balls that washed ashore on North County beaches, which did not close.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
• Rich and delicate and complex aromas of red and black cherries and tartan biscuits, mocha and tar.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The researchers think animals fell into the cave system and were preserved by oil and tar that seeped in, encasing them.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Yet the building to its south, a high-end co-op, claims to have used the Pit for more than thirty years as a storage area for repair equipment: hot tar, stacks of bricks, timber, pavers.
  — Micah Hauser, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• On the exterior, the home features tar and gravel roofing.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Social media’s neolithic age is simply giving way to the next era, and the old dinosaurs are sinking in tar.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• One story has it that his first brushwork involved tar, which was used on the family farm for patching roofs and fixing drains.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• Beaches have reopened, aided by crews picking up tar balls and by ocean currents, wind, and wave action.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2021
• Recognizing the threat against his daughter, Raylan arrives on the scene and beats the tar out of Mansell, as Willa watches along in tearful horror.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• In Laguna Beach, small oil deposits and tar continued to wash ashore on Wednesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• Seven snakes and seven birds have been killed after coming into contact with tar mats or tar balls.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Every November 5, tar barrels are set alight and paraded down the streets.
  — CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• Other ingredients, like the resin, oil, or tar of cypress, juniper, cedar, and Pistacia trees, would have been found elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 2 Feb. 2023
• About 1,900 years ago, someone in what is now the Netherlands hollowed out a sheep or goat femur, filled it with poisonous, hallucinogenic black seeds and sealed it with tar.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• These contaminants can include things like tree sap, road tar, and brake dust, which can cause damage to your car's paint if left untreated.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 6 May 2023
• The additional archive formats include tar, 7-zip, RAR, gz, and many others using the libarchive open-source project.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 29 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024