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• The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.From the entry sand
• In the 19th century British sailors wore sennit or sennet hats. Originally made by the sailors themselves they could be waterproofed with tar.From the entry sennit
• You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin!2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros.…. From the entry heroin
• The creature's black tar viscera flew from the lacerated stump, covering Mary and myself in the fluid.2014 June 4, Jake E. Sampson, The Resurrectionist, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry retch
• Finally she coated the inside of a mug with a thick black tar.2012, Linda Lafferty, “The Reunion”, in The Bloodletter’s Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia, Las Vegas, Nev.: Amazon Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry poppy oil
• Tar preparations, possessing both antiitch and antiinflammatory properties, have long been employed in the treatment of psoriasis.2000, Nelson Lee Novick, Baby Skin. From the entry antiitch
• Now for my question: Is the version of the pbmplus utilities on export.lcs.mit.edu (pbmplus10dec91.tar.Z) the most current?1992 May 27, Jeff Johnson, “About XV”, in alt.graphics.pixutils (Usenet). From the entry mucho thankso
• Species of Phyllachora cause diseases in plants known as leaf tar spots.1990, R. S. Mehrotra, An Introduction to Mycology, page 335. From the entry tar spot
• The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry groceria
• You work for Sanders Aero and so that tars you with the same brush.1964 November, D[aniel] S[tephen] Halacy Jr., “Fire Danger: Extreme”, in Harry A. Harchar, editor, Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys…. From the entry tar with the same brush
• The tarmac road glistened oilily, the sun poured down, there was a strong smell of warm tar.1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 158. From the entry oilily
• The Servians paint crosses with tar on the doors of houses and barns to keep out vampyres.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 153. From the entry vampyre
• From him I have discovered that tar will be much cheaplier made than I thought for.1908, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1699. […], London: […] [F]or His…. From the entry cheaplier
• It is valuable because tar, pitch, rosin, and colophony are obtained by distilling it.1907, G. F. Scott Elliot, The Romance of Plant Life. From the entry colophony
• The land here was dark with tar.2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 246. From the entry Pismo Beach
• Earlier that morning he had gotten the oakum ready for the deck, soaking the hemp in pine tar.2016 June 7, Yaa Gyasi, “Kojo”, in Homegoing, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published June 2017, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry oakum
• Bradshaw doesn't find much humour in it though, and beats the tar out of Dustin, potatoing him with every blow.2014, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 1998, page 26. From the entry potato
• Politics pines for "big beasts" returning from the tar pits of extinction as a consoling presence on the frontbenches.2009 January 23, Simon Jenkins, “Old is new. Even Gutenberg's ghost has returned to live in Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian. From the entry frontbenches
• Instead, the City of Angels, that ever-metastasizing concrete gin blossom of on-ramps and off-ramps built over prehistoric tar pits, deflowered her.2003, Ian Philips, Satyriasis: Literotica 2, page 94. From the entry gin blossom
• It is important to emphasize the basic difference between "tar baby" and the previous American approach to southern Africa.2000, Anthony Lake, The Tar Baby Option: American Policy toward Southern Rhodesia, →ISBN. From the entry tarbaby
• P. maydis, responsible tor the maize tar spot, is one of the few species that can cause severe leaf damage.1990, R. S. Mehrotra, An Introduction to Mycology, page 335. From the entry tar spot
• He had sent the ground officer with a "croggan of tar" with which he marked the ears of all the stock.1982, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, volume 53, page 72. From the entry croggan
• This can result in tars condensing out within the parging and brickwork of the flue, sometimes causing brown or yellow staining on upstairs chimney breasts.2015 April 7, Jeff Howell, “The secret of longer lasting tiles [print version: How to avoid cracking up, 4 April 2015, p. P7]”, in The…. From the entry breast
• This double-headed square frame drum, which is roughly the same size as the tar, may have bells attached inside the drum for varying timbres.2012, Matt Dean, The Drum: A History, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry adufe
• He had attempted to produce cancer in the antestomach of the rats, by painting them with tar in or around the mouth.1949, Acta Pathologica Et Microbiologica Scandinavica, page 22. From the entry antestomach
• It had been common gossip along the wharves at home that young Edwards had grown able to lick the tar out of Yerner.1930, Captain Dingle, “Treasure!” (chapter 9), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 76. From the entry the tar out of
• That both anato and the coal tar dye are dissolved in cottonseed oil which is added to the butter for the purpose of giving color.1926, Biennial Report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of Wisconsin, page 41. From the entry anato
• Coal will give anywhere from 3.6 to 6 per cent coal tar, and this contains on an average 2.5 per cent benzine and its homologens.1912, United States. Congress. House, Report on Schedule A: Chemicals, Oils, and Paints, page 199. From the entry homologen
• Since my letter of Oct. 20, I have found out a man that had lived in Carolina and was concerned in making pitch and tar.1908, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1699. […], London: […] [F]or His…. From the entry cheaplier
• The carbon electrodes rest on a layer f of goudron, which is tar boiled or evaporated to a density greater than that of ordinary tar.1903, Great Britain. Patent Office, Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications, page 75. From the entry goudron
• Cars often pick up bits of road tar and asphalt, dried bugs, tree sap, or other debris that’s hard to remove with regular car wash soap.2020 April 16, Thom Dunn, Rik Paul, “How to Wash and Detail a Car the Right Way”, in The New York Times—Wirecutter. From the entry pick up
• There are marked differences between them, and it is terribly important that we as a country not tar all of these people with the same brush.1988 April 21, Olin B. King, “Statement of Olin B. King, Chairman of the Board, SCI Systems, Inc.”, in U.S. Economic Relations with the…. From the entry tar with the same brush
• The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent.1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry cigarette holder

Meaning of tar

1. noun Coal tar.
2. noun (often typeset "tar" in USA) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
3. noun A sailor (because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes).

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Questions about tar in a sentence

How do you use tar in a sentence?

Tar is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.”

What is a short sentence with tar?

“The land here was dark with tar.”

What does tar mean?

Tar means coal tar.