How to Use tar in a Sentence

tar

1 of 2 noun

• Video from the scene shows traffic cones and warning signs posted around pools of tar that are covered with sand.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Every portrait was tar-dipped to reflect the proportion of each man’s life spent in prison.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Quite a scrumptious array of rich and creamy aromas of licorice, tar and cherry parfait.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Either way, the addition of tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and others is great for Windows 11 users.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 May 2023
• Beachgoers have been dealing with tar balls since before Texas was a state.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Aromas of red fruit with a lick of tar, violet and primroses.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• The timbers — some as thick as tree trunks, others no longer than a school ruler — retain a rich, earthy scent, still a little piney from the tar used as caulking.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• We are stuck like chicken feathers to tar—for lovely always.
  — Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
• These soy candles that are infused with pine, cedar and birch tar essential oils are the next best thing to being outside.
  — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Round, hefty, bright aromas of blackberries, red cherries and tar.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Cipriano was paid $500 to smuggle the drugs, described in the court documents as an unknown weight of black tar heroin, into the prison.
  — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• In the West, where most heroin is sold as a stickier substance known as black tar, fentanyls had been less widespread.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021
• On the exterior, the house is characterized by the use of tar and gravel roofing.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Working up high, exposed to the sun with no shade in sight, and near boiling tar, roofers must tolerate far more heat than most other jobs.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Crews also have been collecting tar balls that washed ashore on North County beaches, which did not close.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
• Rich and delicate and complex aromas of red and black cherries and tartan biscuits, mocha and tar.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The researchers think animals fell into the cave system and were preserved by oil and tar that seeped in, encasing them.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Yet the building to its south, a high-end co-op, claims to have used the Pit for more than thirty years as a storage area for repair equipment: hot tar, stacks of bricks, timber, pavers.
  — Micah Hauser, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• On the exterior, the home features tar and gravel roofing.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Social media’s neolithic age is simply giving way to the next era, and the old dinosaurs are sinking in tar.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• One story has it that his first brushwork involved tar, which was used on the family farm for patching roofs and fixing drains.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• Beaches have reopened, aided by crews picking up tar balls and by ocean currents, wind, and wave action.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2021
• Recognizing the threat against his daughter, Raylan arrives on the scene and beats the tar out of Mansell, as Willa watches along in tearful horror.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• In Laguna Beach, small oil deposits and tar continued to wash ashore on Wednesday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• Seven snakes and seven birds have been killed after coming into contact with tar mats or tar balls.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Every November 5, tar barrels are set alight and paraded down the streets.
  — CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• Other ingredients, like the resin, oil, or tar of cypress, juniper, cedar, and Pistacia trees, would have been found elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 2 Feb. 2023
• About 1,900 years ago, someone in what is now the Netherlands hollowed out a sheep or goat femur, filled it with poisonous, hallucinogenic black seeds and sealed it with tar.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• These contaminants can include things like tree sap, road tar, and brake dust, which can cause damage to your car's paint if left untreated.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 6 May 2023
• Roughly 1,050 pounds of oily waste, sand and tar balls were also removed from the shoreline, and one aquatic diving bird with oil on it was recovered, according to the Coast Guard.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024

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tar

2 of 2 verb

• But Lee didn’t get tarred with that corporate raider brush.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• None of us were tarred and feathered for simply asking the question.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• Critics often tar him as a jet-setter, out of touch with the lives of ordinary people.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• The opposition, meanwhile, has been divided and tarred by the past failures of the PAN and two other parties in the coalition.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The move has been met with dismay by many Ukrainians on the island, who say that most of the incidents involve Russians and that they are being unfairly tarred with the same brush.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• School officials have tried to reserve tarring for times when students aren’t in classrooms — like after school or over the weekends, Baxter said.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• And Democrats in swing districts should be worried that the Afghanistan surrender will again tar Democrats as weak on national security.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
• For a platform provider like Google that seeks to stay above the fray, Pichai recognized the risks of being tarred with the same brush as many partisan cable media outlets and daily newspapers.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Opponents of feminism in China have tarred the movement as pitching women above men.
  — Siyi Zhao, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• This is often how prosecutors use leaks to the media to tar a target’s reputation.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2021
• Liberals tar the protest as racist, but the peaceful populist uprising is notable and some of the protesters’ gripes are legitimate.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• By all accounts, the department failed to anticipate the furor that the creation of the advisory panel would cause — as well as the ease with which critics would tar it with the very kind of campaigns it was meant to monitor.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• To be clear, Oliver-Dávila and Rivera were wrong to tar an entire neighborhood as racist because some residents opposed this change in policy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• There has been no shortage of sparring over the investigation, including a number of social media posts from Mr. Trump tarring it.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• The Obama-era loan office was tarred by accusations of cronyism; dollars had a way of going to the politically connected.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• But in the past decade, as the economy stagnated and leading politicians were tarred by corruption scandals, the earliest skirmishes of the new culture war broke out — and its greatest warrior was Bolsonaro.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• But this wasn't just a function of the fallacy of composition, where one loony activist says something off the wall and the GOP amplifies it far beyond reason in order to tar the opposition unfairly.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Nov. 2020
• The ever closer alliance between health experts and political leaders is likely to tar the former with the distrust directed towards the latter.
  — Shadim Hussain, Wired, 21 Nov. 2020
• The slightest mistake could tar his decades-long career in government, bring national embarrassment to Broward County — and could even affect who becomes the next president.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• Hunter Biden, who has battled drug addiction, has been a target for Republicans looking to tar the president with allegations of corruption after five decades in public life.
  — al, 2 Feb. 2023
• Lawyers for the governor disagreed with the report’s conclusion, arguing that Boylan was not harmed severely enough by efforts to tar her name for those efforts to constitute retaliation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• Investment has dried up, regulators are cracking down, and the reputation of the businesses that remain standing has been tarred by association.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
• The animosity toward Henrietta Maria took a familiar form, with critics tarring her as both cold and calculating and promiscuous and flighty.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• However, Republicans run the risk of achieving precisely the opposite goal of politically tarring, feathering, and trying to remove the president.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• Greenberg has since confessed to carrying out an elaborate scheme to destroy Beute’s reputation, using bogus social media accounts and anonymous letters to tar his political opponent as a white supremacist and child abuser.
  — Orlando Sentinel Podcasts, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2021
• But Trump’s willingness to wade in has led his party to embrace his method: tarring investigations as political while simultaneously politicizing those investigations.
  — Luke Broadwater, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• But Lee didn’t get tarred with that corporate raider brush.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• None of us were tarred and feathered for simply asking the question.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• Critics often tar him as a jet-setter, out of touch with the lives of ordinary people.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• The opposition, meanwhile, has been divided and tarred by the past failures of the PAN and two other parties in the coalition.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024