How to Use tarpaulin in a Sentence

tarpaulin

noun

• Then the rain comes, slow at first, then hard enough to have the tarpaulin rolled back into place.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• The people of the village gathered as the sacks were laid out on a blue tarpaulin.
  — Roger Cohen Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
• Many had laid out tarpaulins and squatted on the streets outside the court.
  — Vidhi Doshi, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• A few yards away, a large shelter of tarpaulins rippled in the wind.
  — BenoÎt Morenne, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
• Daghash’s home is a tent made of blankets, tarpaulin and pieces of cardboard.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• Meanwhile, Addi has laid out a feast of oats on the tarpaulin under a tree for shade.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024
• Most had camping chairs and some had a tarpaulin to sit under.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2022
• At night in the refugee camps, with only a thin tarpaulin wall as protection, Mohammed waits for the men to come and kill him.
  — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
• Most days, Nyine’s side of the family wasn’t in their blue tarpaulin home but at the Bigo clinic for wound checks.
  — Nick Turse, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
• The Rebel Kitchen is housed in four gazebos customised with various pieces of tarpaulin and lots of gaffa tape.
  — The Economist, 18 Oct. 2019
• Tents, tarpaulins, food stalls and solar panels to charge mobile phones are laid out among rows of men bent in prayer.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• The family strung a tarpaulin across the terrace and moved upstairs.
  — Sadiq Naqvi, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• One day my horse was much frightened at a drilling machine covered by a tarpaulin and lying on an open field.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
• The full list of items also includes tarpaulins, tie-down kits and ground anchor systems.
  — Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 1 June 2017
• At the Second Battle of Bapaume, in August, 1918, he was shot through his right lung and was on the verge of bleeding to death when a medic swaddled him in a tarpaulin.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The homes, funded by overseas donors, will have concrete floors, bamboo walls and tarpaulin roofs.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• By the end, Tillerson was like a dead animal someone needed to pull a tarpaulin over.
  — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• It is made of steel, canvas, tarpaulin, timber and rope netting.
  — Georgia McCafferty, CNN, 12 July 2017
• The inside is lined with water-resistant tarpaulin and has a padded lining to protect all of your gear.
  — Déjà Leonard, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
• Women and children sleep below deck, watched over by a midwife, while the men sleep on the open deck, covered only with tarpaulin.
  — CNN, 12 June 2018
• Some boys lived in two dozen tarpaulin tents in the bush, others in entire occupied towns, like Malam Fatori.
  — Sarah A. Topol Photographs By Glenna Gordon, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• Guards found the thieves drunk and hiding under a tarpaulin, according to the Art Newspaper.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
• Gathered under tarpaulins baking in the sun, the women counsel one another and learn skills such as how to build a kitchen stove from clay.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
• For now, the only thing on the site apart from the ruins of an old cottage is a small sign planted out in the bog, covered in a flapping blue tarpaulin, waiting to be unveiled.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
• Both statues were covered in black tarpaulins late last month as a symbol of mourning for Heather Heyer, the woman who was killed at the rally.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2017
• Most live in bamboo and tarpaulin shelters perched on hilly slopes that are vulnerable to strong winds, rain, and landslides.
  — Angus Watson, CNN, 14 May 2023
• Spokesman Arifin Hadi said people need clean water and tarpaulins most of all.
  — Andi Jatmiko, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• The water oozed under the tarpaulin wall of his family’s makeshift shelter, turning the dirt floor to mud and soaking the sacks of rice that represented most of their food.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• The walls are hardwood but covered in thick beige tarpaulin that winds down like a tent but over glass windows, reminding guests that this is indeed a safari lodge.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• At sunrise, mist lifted to reveal several hundred bamboo and tarpaulin shelters clinging to muddy hillsides.
  — Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024