tarpaulin

Example Sentences

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Gone is the tarpaulin roof: The Bird Cage is now a fully enclosed, soundstage-like structure.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

He recounted how once they boarded the pirogue, he and the other passengers were covered with a tarpaulin: "I closed my eyes and thought of my mother," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Laurent Kone's wattle-and-daub house, with its tarpaulin roof and no electricity, lies down a bumpy red-earth track in western Ivory Coast.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

By 1970, sculptors Christo and Jeanne-Claude had just wrapped a million square-feet of coastal Australia in tarpaulin lashed with rope.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Butler unzipped the black tarpaulin, dragging it back across the cargo.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer