How to Use tarp in a Sentence

tarp

noun

• The tent was dark and loud with the hard rain pelting the tarp.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• The grounds crew had the rare chance to roll out the tarp and cover the infield.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2022
• Set the bow in a shady spot under a tarp or in a garage.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• The tarp is still spread out with the back fully anchored to the ground.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• The tent may be attached to the car and there could be a blue tarp along.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
• As the rain started to fall, the tarp went back over the infield.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
• Every now and then, the pair had to dunk the tarp in the water to cool it down.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The team’s home court was covered in a large blue tarp.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• The lieutenant said the body was wrapped in what appeared to be a tarp.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• About a half-hour later, the rain let up, crews pulled the tarp away and the stars came out.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
• The rain lifts, the tarp is rolled up and the national anthem echoes.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• Just lie on the ground with the tarp, in water streaming by.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Haynes pointed through the trees to a small brown tarp structure, round and low to the ground.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• Reese McGuire crossed the plate as the ball ricocheted off the tarp near the stands and Kwan gave chase.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
• The team found the man under a camouflage tarp, the post said.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 July 2022
• More than 3,000 homes to this day have only a blue tarp as a roof.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• The group took refuge under a tree and set up a tarp to keep the sick hiker cool.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 23 June 2022
• After Sanchez was tagged out, the plate umpire called for the tarp.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 July 2022
• To clean the firebox, put down a tarp and remove any fire logs and ash.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 Jan. 2023
• Bring a rope and tarp to move the tree from the harvest area to your vehicle.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Williams’ body was wrapped in tarp and stuffed inside the toolbox.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 23 Apr. 2022
• The Astros and Phillies worked out on the field Monday before the tarp was put down around 5 p.m.
  — Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• Smith searched around the home and found his mother’s body, covered by a tarp in the driveway of the house.
  — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• The two cleaned the area and wrapped Nicole Jones’ body in the tarp and threw it in a dumpster, officials said.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 5 June 2024
• In the middle of a dusty trail, a small wolf lies motionless on a tarp.
  — Sebastian Mulder, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• The wind blows so hard that chunks of rock are placed on the tarp outside to stop it from flying away.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• The Astros and Phillies both worked out on the field Monday before the tarp was put down around 5 p.m.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 1 Nov. 2022
• To get to the glacier from the road, his students walk across mounds of white tarps, stretched around an ice cave carved for tourists.
  — George Steinmetz Catherine Porter, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• So researcher Justin Voss draped the crates with a tarp soaked in seawater.
  — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• Just as grass can be killed by leaving a piece of plywood or a dark tarp on it, poison ivy can be smothered and killed.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024