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How to use tar in a sentence

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He was a dinosaur who, instead of crawling off to some distant tar pit to die, took an entire industry with him into the abyss.
I've got most of the roof done, and all I need to do there is nail a few more boards to it and smear that roofing tar across it.
The stone walls and stick ceiling drip with black tar from decades of burning yak dung.
The asphalt was dark and slightly shiny in the sun, as if the oppressive heat was melting the tar within the road.
Doesn't this tar him with the same brush as myself and therefore invalidate his argument?
The roads shall have sensory speed detectors, traffic lights and tar macadam.
The cigarette has a filter that makes them harder to inhale, aimed at reducing tar and nicotine consumption.
Site remediation meant removing the residual contamination of the former gasworks' tar pits.
He did manage to identify the genus of some bits of wood, perhaps 10,000 years old, extracted from the La Brea tar pits in California.
Most of those bones, which began accumulating in the tar pits about 44,000 years ago, were exhumed early in the 1900s, he says.
Their bones are common in the La Brea tar pits of Los Angeles, and mummified remains have been found in Alaska and Siberia.
It wasn't horribly interesting watching a bunch of natural tar pits and the skeletons of animals that were found in them.
Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber-toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits.
She said if the road went through the area, it would transform Bennettsbridge into a major depot for tar and bricks.
Using oils, acrylics, resin and tar on both wood and canvas support, the work reflects industrial, urban, suburban and natural views.
They refined black tar to make plastic for the television casings, and they blew fine glass for the screens.
It wasn't too much later that I found myself working as a roofer in Aspen, Colorado, carrying buckets of hot tar up a ladder.
The tar and stone mixture layer was found to be less than the prescribed 7 mm.
I continued walking across the hot black tar of the parking lot until I reached a dark blue Ferrari.
When he learnt of a valuable Baltic convoy carrying timber and tar for shipbuilding due into port, he waited to ambush it off Scarborough.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The liquid products of the destructive distillation of coal are tar and ammoniacal liquor.
So instead of phenol, other coal tar products such as cresol, naphthol or benzene itself may be used.
In the north of Europe great quantities of tar are procured from the Scotch pine.
The laying of bituminous pavements in this country began in 1869, and they were first made of tar concrete, or scrimshaw.
The tar and his training have given way to the register, the gauge and the electrometer.
The skool teachers we will tar and feather, and whar is the bloo-koted hirelins to make us afeerd?
The making of medicines from coal tar began in 1874 when Kolbe made salicylic acid from carbolic acid.
When he saw the tar baby, he sat up straight and peeped at it through the leaves.
The next morning Brother Fox came out to see how the tar baby was getting along.
By that time Rabbit looked like a ball, all four paws sticking to the tar baby.
It was in some sort of tar sand, of which we have seen a good deal on our journey.
All ribs and segments were cut to size on the ground, put together in place, and then covered with lagging and two-ply tar paper.
The undissolved tar was filtered off and extracted twice again in the same way.
They went up the Pearl River, and captured a small steamer loaded with tar and rosin.
At first the pine tar smell will bother you, but in a short time you will get to like it.
Among these might be mentioned coal tar and creosote, or a mixture of pine tar, linseed oil, lamp black and creosote.
The animal may be relieved from suffering if the stump is smeared with pine tar and wrapped in cloth.
Cold infusion of tar was used in our colonies as a prophylactic against the Small Pox.
The old schooner scrunched her way past the Olenia, roweling the yacht's glossy paint and smearing her with tar and slime.
The residue was a tar which, on standing in a desiccator for some time, became dry enough to break into sticky lumps.
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