tarpaulin
Example Sentences
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At another settlement, the U.N. refugee agency has run out of blankets, tarpaulins and sleeping mats, forcing refugees to sleep in the open.
Blue plastic tarpaulins covered the roofs of houses that still had walls to attach to.
From New York Times
He ended up sleeping under a tarpaulin in woods for almost two years, relying on drinking water from the radiator top-up pumps at petrol stations.
From BBC
After powerful earthquakes struck southern Turkey, Eylem Sahutoglu and her family endured two weeks of freezing nights under a blue tarpaulin.
From New York Times
Most of the aid so far has been for basic survival needs: medical supplies, food, water, tarpaulins and tents.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
