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How to use tarpaper in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tarpaper? Here are some examples.

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The artist begins by first drawing the scene in miniature and then chalking it out to actual dimensions on black tarpaper.
At the time, their high school consisted of a series of leaky tarpaper shacks.
Within 30 minutes the mural had been covered by tarpaper and a wooden screen.
My people lived in tarpaper shacks with plywood siding and five-gallon drums for heat.
Except there's no sheetrock, only the black tarpaper they use to cover insulation and the beams and studs of the frame.
The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.
Some 10,000 Lakota Sioux resided there during the 1970s, many living in tarpaper shacks without electricity or running water.
As a lad, I wandered onto a patch of land with a tarpaper shack occupied by, as I learned later, a hermit.
Inside the garage he inhaled the scent of motor oil and dust and tarpaper.
From a second-story window of a rooming house covered with red brick-patterned tarpaper comes the sound of a blues harmonica.
It is a tarpaper roof, applied by professionals over a flat wood surface.
The woman lived with her children in a 12-foot-square tarpaper shack.
They'd stolen the remains of a roll of tarpaper from a construction site and laid sheets of this over the roof of the top room.
Many agricultural workers continue to live the equivalent of an old-South sharecropper existence in tarpaper shacks, plywood shanties and wooden boxcars with no running water.
When I first came here, my Mom pictured me living in a tarpaper shack.
The blind was a small dark hut with a flat tarpaper roof and a packed-dirt floor and two rectangular holes cut in the weathered boards.
The roof is sheathed with particleboard and covered with tarpaper and rolled asphalt shingle.
In addition, the stucco layered over chicken wire and tarpaper protected the clapboard and square-top iron-cut nails.
It is comforting to believe in the purity of isolation, and to believe that good barbecue exists only in a remote tarpaper shack, or in obscure blues clubs in Memphis, but it is a fiction.
We were taught by the other Habitat volunteers and were actually even allowed to go up onto the roof at the end to lay out the tarpaper.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The walls will be of shiplap, covered with matched siding, with tarpaper between.
Outside, the rain fell in great silvery sheets, so that the noise on the tarpaper roof of the barracks was almost deafening.
The roof will be of two thicknesses of boards, bent to a gentle oval over a stout ridge-pole, and again with tarpaper between.
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