tar
Example Sentences
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Hancock Park Elementary Principal Ashley Parker, for instance, holds a shovel dripping with tar from the La Brea Tar Pits.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
"I don't want to tar every business with the same brush by any means, but there is some profiteering."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Pike perch tartare from Lake Oulujärvi rests on malt bread with capers and dill oil and a whisper of pine tar.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
“Zed still has a little tar still seeping from his skull,” said Lori Bettison-Varga, director, “but we’re going to show him off, anyway.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The curtains were never drawn in that house, and through the windows I could see huge snowflakes falling slowly on to an outside world that was as black as tar.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Vocabulary lists containing tar
Black and Gray
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