How to Use tar pit in a Sentence

tar pit

noun

• This will shift the flow of visitors into the park and therefore the tar pits.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
• Last month, the La Brea tar pits announced a new master plan.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Evening fell and the day’s gentle breeze died down, leaving the river as still as a tar pit.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Donald sailed by guard Quinton Spain, who looked as if he were stuck in a tar pit.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• But the middle ground has become a tar pit in Washington.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
• Leaving the tar pits, Samberg passed a sculpture of a giant sloth, which kids were climbing on.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• And like Sabbath, these guys get that channeling a trudge through the tar pits can yield much heavier results than playing fast.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
• The ranch’s woodlands and tall grasslands are complemented by unique tar pits, ponds and flowing streams.
  — Katie Brown, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
• Hello from sunny Los Angeles, where the Moon Juice and tar pits never stop flowing.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 15 July 2019
• Even when the wind here cooperated, Gordita was still like living on a houseboat anchored in a tar pit.
  — David Kipen, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Like mammoths sinking in a tar pit, everyone just seems to be doing their best in a bad situation.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2022
• Steer horns, assorted bottles, a wagon wheel, and even rusty vintage firearms were recovered from the grotto floor in 1995—akin to a La Brea tar pit for the pioneer set.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Today, visitors to Los Angeles can visit the tar pits to learn about the fossils discovered there.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019
• Researchers examined hundreds of bones from the extinct animals dug out of the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles over the last century.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
• The mammoths — which have become an L.A. cultural icon — are seen embedded in a lake pit, which is not an accurate representation of a tar pit.
  — Steven Vargasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The tar pits and the accompanying George C. Page Museum have become landmarks in their own right, serving as a tourist standby and appearing in countless movies.
  — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• More than 3,000 fossilized cats have been pulled from the acrid ooze of the La Brea tar pits in California, and researchers studying them have long pictured Smilodon as a lion-like hunter, chasing bison and horses out on open grasslands.
  — John Pickrell, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2019
• Last summer, Leger was expecting to see a dramatic increase in fossils as construction approached the tar pits.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2018
• The researchers first examined fossils from the La Brea tar pits, naturally occurring pools of asphalt that trapped and preserved bones from dozens of mammal species and over a hundred bird species over a period of thousands of years.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
• The amoeba shape encroached on the tar pit, which is an active excavation site, and the director of the natural-history museum objected.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Researchers found this by studying microbial communities in water samples from Trinidad and Tobago's Pitch Lake, the world's largest natural asphalt lake (less prettily, a tar pit).
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2014
• Advertisement Viren evokes the bubbling tar pit that is high school with exquisite precision, the hot froth of personal and intellectual discovery.
  — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024