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Meanings of tar in English
Usage of tar in English
1
Read: Incomplete tar road built in rural Eastern Cape cost R117 million
2
Many European oil companies have major interests in the Canadian tar sands.
3
The tar moves slowly but seven thousand years is a long time.'
4
Canadian officials have called development of the tar sands a national priority.
5
In the tar furnace, the tar itself burns, and the tar only.
6
This cynical approach to tar my reputation has to stop, he added.
7
He had a tar kiln; he cut splinters put them on it.
8
The tar-pot fell to the deck, and I very nearly accompanied it.
9
It was like a sea of swirling, spiraling tar, thick and viscous.
10
This is the mine of chapapote or mineral tar of the country.
11
I described finding the hand bones and the glob of pine tar.
12
Of course, he could only do that from underneath the tar-soaked fabric.
13
Two of them carried torches made of old brooms dipped in tar.
14
It moved with sure, fleeting motions across the sodden tar and clay.
15
The costly pine tar was soon replaced by the cheaper coal tar.
16
He had built the shed well and lined it with tar paper.
About this term
Tar through the time
Tar across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common