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Sentence Examples She closed her eyes for a moment as she tore the tarpaulin off the person beneath it. They've got the walls as solid as a rock and a roof on it under that tarpaulin. The pickup box was covered with a greasy tarpaulin held down by an equally greasy yellow nylon rope. A farmer is not exposed to falling ropes, or spars, or tackle-hence, does not need a stiff tarpaulin, like a sailor or a fireman. She heaved at the rolled up black tarpaulin, hoping that the rope would keep her tent together as it fell into her arms. Soldiers stood or sat on them and the vehicles were enclosed with tarpaulin. A 60-inch-high canopy stands over a chunk of a masonry wall now lying flat on a piece of bright blue plastic tarpaulin. The tarpaulin sheets for the roofs of the stalls went first, followed by the counter boards and finally the heavy metal frames. On the second day of rain, Al took the tarpaulin separating the two sides of the boxcar and draped it over the front end of the truck. It grew dark, and Burginde pulled open the tarpaulin flap to speak to the drover. Conditions were hard with up to 10,000 people living in squalor under tarpaulin and surviving on corn meal and wheat. I truly do not relish the thought of living under a huge tarpaulin when the west winds howl. And they pulled me inboard, and they put me right up in the bow, of the whaler, and they covered me with a tarpaulin or something. We found a lifeboat suspended 10 feet above the deck and bedded down under a tarpaulin. The tiles were covered in tarpaulin and pegged down while the police were informed. He said the remaining topsoil had been hosed down and covered with polythene and tarpaulin. The sun was quite low when the train pulled into another yard, and he had covered them with tarpaulin once again. They put up temporary housing made out of mud, out of bamboo, out of thatch, out of tarpaulin, out of corrugated steel. Moments later he reappeared with a large plastic tarpaulin, a box of nails and several lengths of rough carcassing. In Kindamba he improvised a splint from palm branches and asked a carpenter to make another, around which tarpaulin would be wrapped. Show More Sentences Red lanterns suspended from bamboo poles crisscross the streets while bamboo stalls topped with colorful tarpaulin litter the sidewalks. The vandals also tried to reach 300 seats from Manchester City's former Maine Road ground which are protected by a large and heavy tarpaulin. Crews have covered the roof with salvage tarpaulin to protect the house from the weather while repairs are made. He flowed down to the floor of the lifeboat and disappeared under the tarpaulin. Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was covered in tarpaulin to prevent onlookers seeing the body. On Tuesday, the group witnessed a convoy of 43 unmarked green military trucks with tarpaulin covers moving towards Donetsk. When he carried out his action, Klein was met on the ground by an outstretched tarpaulin. Our camp was a small clearing in the forest near the riverbank under a large tarpaulin and we slept on bedrolls laid on a groundsheet. These extend across the entire length of the container and are closed by means of a tarpaulin. Using the mast as a ridgepole for a tarpaulin may be practical, but make sure it is well protected from chafe. There are two parks and a huge slum consisting of shacks built with odds and ends, which are mostly roofed over with tarpaulin. A huge painted tarpaulin, weeks in the making, was passed over the supporters in the end. My outdoor classroom in the sand was a blue plastic tarpaulin sheet draped overhead to protect us from the scorching sun. A tarpaulin to protect furniture from heavy rain, if it is going to be transported in an open trailer. Solid waste can be stored in plastic bags with a maximum capacity of 100 litres, laid on a tarpaulin to prevent them from being pierced. Finally, open-top containers are vulnerable to un-authorised access via the tarpaulin covering the top. People will receive clothes, eating utensils, water containers and a tarpaulin for shelter. Attach the tarpaulin to the folding disc frame at the front and use tensioning ropes to pull it tight to the folding frame at the rear. For use with thick cardboard panels, tarpaulin and canvas materials, rubber tires, thin sheet metal, etc. The tarpaulin must be installed in such a manner as to prevent rain and snow from reaching the load or causing contaminant leakage. Show More Sentences Even when heavily pregnant, she still travelled 800km in the back of a pick-up truck covered by a tarpaulin. If stored outdoors, keep dry by covering completely with a waterproof tarpaulin. Those whose houses is still standing have put up a big tarpaulin in their yard to accommodate theirs relatives. Description: Two men cover a load of boards with tarpaulin prior to shipping. Solid containers are easier to lock and more difficult to open than swap bodies or semi-trailers with a tarpaulin and hoop. For this occasion, the public could drop a line, an organic action or a personal initiative for the Planet in the large 10: 10 tarpaulin. She grinned and flicked her eyebrow, letting her eyes follow his progress up the rigging and to the top yardarm, were he settled into the tarpaulin for his watch. A quantity of drugs were recovered from the house and a high-value car, which was found covered by tarpaulin in the front garden, was removed to be stripped down and examined. The option was of course, to down tools, rush off to the Hyper Value, buy a big piece of tarpaulin and cover the huge open space in our front wall. No, they insist, quickly hiding paint pots under some nearby tarpaulin. The three-and-a-half-hour struggle to make the area safe ended when the fire crews managed to get tarpaulin over the roof and made the ground debris safe. She then knelt down on the large tarpaulin protecting the floor and began to put the caps back on the dozens of watercolours she had carelessly left open. He sheltered beneath the dripping tarpaulin of a news agent's for a while. We spent the night out under the stars, about 30 of us rolled up in our tarpaulin, with a circle of colourful flags and our GE Free banners surrounding us. The pale, shy light of dawn was tinting her brown-coloured tarpaulin tent. When we were kids and some rain would come up, the fans would jump out of the stands to help spread the tarpaulin on the field. Alina Vergana, 41, was sitting beneath a tarpaulin stretched to keep off the burning sun. Across the mucky yard what can only be described as a run down shed, with a tarpaulin roof and a piece of pallet for a gate, was home to four Alsatians. The tarpaulin that covers the entrance is gashed in several places, undoubtedly caused by the ice spicules flying at speeds that made them deadly projectiles. The smoke is billowing, the bells are tolling, the bagpipes are wailing and, down below in the pit, the heads of the groundlings are peeking through a black tarpaulin like the lost souls on Judgment Day. Show More Sentences At one point witnesses counted 140 officers trying to confiscate a piece of tarpaulin that 30 people were sitting on, compounding claims that the Met's response was heavy-handed. Nobody minds if the premises – four containers protected from the sun by a large tarpaulin – look a bit shoddy compared with the British ambassador's official residence nearby. In the sun drying process, the product is spread on surfaces such as cement or brick terraces, tarpaulin, plastic canvas, bamboo and sisal mats, raised tables covered in wire mesh or fish farm netting. The perishable goods were placed in the large warehouses but the unperishable were covered with tarpaulin and left where unloaded. For now, however, home is a white tarpaulin on the edge of a dusty, noisy road, where trucks race past blasting their horns and leaving the lingering odor of gasoline. Cutting and making-up of plain synthetic fiber fabrics, curtain and decorative fabrics, natural and artificial silk, light-weight sailcloth, canvas and tarpaulin materials. The tarpaulin shelters provided by UNHCR in this camp are gradually being replaced with non-stabilized earth bricks, which give the camp the appearance of an ordinary Chadian village. In the garden was a semi-rigid pneumatic boat covered by a tarpaulin. They huddle under the flimsiest tarpaulin or tent, chase and recover them when they get blown away, and stay with their new neighbours in the straggling city settlements. Months later, Vireak still lives under a tarpaulin on the roadside. The banners, which are made from tarpaulin, are designed to resist bad weather and are therefore an ideal material to use to make sturdy waterproof bags. A blue tarpaulin shot through the air in downtown Charlotte Amalie, followed by two pieces of lumber, as Bertha turned someone's temporary roof into lethal projectiles. Examples from Classical Literature Some fishermen rescued him with their seine, poured some potheen down his throat, and carried him home on a piece of tarpaulin. The imperfect protection of a tarpaulin was, and is, a great temptation to pilferage. I could not control my anxiety as the steward got nearer and nearer the tarpaulin. The loads, covered by the tarpaulin, had been arranged in the centre of the circle. At camp Kingozi ordered them to place the loads in place beneath the tarpaulin. I crawl in between the chairs and the wall and get under that piece of tarpaulin. The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim. Toward six o'clock the wind rose and tugged at the tarpaulin and brought the swell higher. He spread a tarpaulin amid the clutter amidships and they sat down. It was protected from the weather by an ingenious little tarpaulin contrivance in the nature of an umbrella. We treated every existing measurement point like a tent pole to a certain extent and arithmetically covered these poles with a tarpaulin. Run in six of the guns, and throw a tarpaulin over the eighteen pounder. The group of men down under the riverbank fell back when they saw a woman coming, and one of them threw a tarpaulin over the stretcher. Close to the road, on their left, was a roofless house, and a family of children crying underneath a tarpaulin shelter. An old seaman, bronzed by the tropical sun, advanced, twirling the remains of a tarpaulin between his hands. Well, you mark my words, as that cloud 'ull spread o'er the sky pretty nigh as quick as you'd spread a tarpaulin over one o' your hay-ricks. The gentlemanly man, with feeble and deprecatory gestures, and in the manner of a hypnotised person, produced an excellent large tarpaulin. The driver in his conical cape and tarpaulin hat, streamed with water. On this he spread a tarpaulin, and then heaped it with blankets. Hephzy hastily removed her hat and thrust it beneath the tarpaulin. Show More Sentences The second officer sewed me up next day with a needle he'd made out of an ivory toothpick and with twine he twisted out of the threads from a frayed tarpaulin. Find more words! 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