tar

“We’re buying tar from Venezuela, and we’re refining it in Houston,” he complained.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

"What we're seeing is ambient road temperatures at the height of the heat up in the 40s, and that causes the tar on the roads to melt."

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

So did the tar pulls, an interactive exhibit where visitors test their strength against levers submerged in buckets of asphalt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

She’d taken a small tin of tar, and as Celaena rose from her crouch in the windowsill, her sticky, black hands and bare feet easily gripped the stone wall.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Scott Beeland runs PWC Gwynedd, a website promoting safe use of sea scooters, and said irresponsible use of water vehicles by a minority "tars us all with the same brush".

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2023

One wonders what those early salt- and sun-battered tars would have thought of the drink’s most recent incarnation, the milkshake IPA.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

In a 2,600-year-old embalming workshop, scientists have discovered the ingredients for making a mummy: the tars, fats, tree resins and oils ancient Egyptians used to preserve bodies and prepare them for the afterlife.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 included new regulations around color, specifically those derived from coal tars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2018

"Pull, gents! Be good lads! It's me own fault, not leadin' you around this bog. Me eyesight ain't what it was, is it, old tars?"

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

Although they premiered more than 20 years apart, the television shows “Bluey” and “South Park” have been tarred with the “millennial” brush.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

And I didn't want Gus to be tarred with any of that, so at first you don't say anything and then I thought, I have to tell his friends and I have to tell people.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

He had been born into the lowest rung of minor aristocracy—his uncle was a baronet—and his family wealth came from Australia: two things that tarred him with outsider status among the class-conscious British elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But she said critics had tarred her for something far more nefarious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

The tarred patches on the cracks of the street were melting.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Abbott, who represents the Stoney Stanton and Croft division, said he was "not being prejudiced" or "tarring anyone" and was stating a concern "from his residents".

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

It attempted to justify his deportation by tarring him as a gang member, an accusation that was based on comically flimsy evidence and which the government never tried to escalate to proving in court.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2025

American law enforcement was more interested in tarring King with whatever they could dig up than in protecting him.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2023

The pieces are made primarily of white rope that the artist turned partly black by burning, tarring, painting or — in a piece that refers obliquely to noted African American performers — embellishing with sequins.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

Above her, Horse and Archer were on the yards with little wooden pails, tarring down the rigging.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee