skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "tar" in a sentence

    tar example sentences

    tar


    tarred


    tarring


    tars


    1. The accountant shrugged his shoulders, took a packet of low tar cigarettes


    2. I hoarded my daily ration of cigarettes, denying myself the luxury of nicotine relief for hours on end, until, like a binge drinker I felt compelled to indulge in some weird chain-smoking ritual, gorging on tar and smoke until I was physically sick


    3. The accountant shrugged his shoulders, took a packet of low tar cigarettes from his jacket pocket and offered one to his companion, who shook his head


    4. “Oh yes,” she answered quickly, “I want to be there with you when you tell her, Tar


    5. “Maybe he’ll be different Tar


    6. “You are wrong here Tar; this is something I know


    7. “Oh Tar I have never seen the likes of this before,” she said in a breathless voice leaning in close


    8. “You are full of surprises Tar,” she leaned closer and whispered, “and not just in the bedroom


    9. I went to Tar and told him; he said he suspected all along, Duncan


    10. “I have visited his hold twice now; Tar wanted to know if he was really after Naria and the throne

    11. “My love for you is total Tar,” she looked at him and continued in a soft voice, “It guided my actions and stayed my hand last night


    12. of smooth tar macadam extending as far as the eye could see


    13. In the distance the tar ladling lorries with their battery of rollers chugged, idling back and forth as a black steaming liquid gushed behind each one


    14. The plane arrived at Mesapit three hours late with a load of angry passengers lightly covered in tar and nylon feathers


    15. The pilots blossomed like stuffed pillows, only their eyes and nostrils showed through a much heavier layer of tar


    16. Fists were raised and court action promised as the noisy passengers slide down the yellow slides, that is once the air hostesses have managed to peel away the tar that was insidiously creeping through the doors


    17. ic sites will be highly tar


    18. It was when she fetched the tar bucket with which she salved the lame ewe’s ankle


    19. back, then returned with the tar bucket


    20. And she hadn’t reapplied the tar

    21. The cloud reminded Danny of a pool of tar that had been picked up and pulled into rough shapes


    22. Of this kind are all naval stores, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, pig and bar iron, copper ore, hides and skins, pot and pearl ashes


    23. The prohibition of exporting from the colonies to any other country but Great Britain, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, naturally tended to lower the price of timber in the colonies, and consequently to increase the expense of clearing their lands, the principal obstacle to their


    24. But about the beginning of the present century, in 1703, the pitch and tar company of Sweden endeavoured to raise the price of their commodities to Great Britain, by prohibiting their exportation, except in their own ships, at their own price, and in such quantities as they thought proper


    25. Under this denomination were comprehended timber fit for masts, yards, and bowsprits; hemp, tar, pitch, and turpentine


    26. The bounties upon the importation of tar, pitch, and turpentine, underwent, during their continuance, several alterations


    27. Originally, that upon tar was £4 the ton ; that upon pitch the same; and that upon turpentine £3 the ton


    28. The bounty of £4 the ton upon tar was afterwards confined to such as had been prepared in a particular manner ; that upon other good, clean, and merchantable tar was reduced to £2:4s


    29. as tar, pitch and turpentine, and see to the removal of all


    30. a Nymloc scurried around the corner to halt before him in the hallway, human torso, arms and legs of black tar, a ram skulled head with twisted bull horns and eyes of red flame

    31. this morning or so, with a cat on his head, and Mother beating the tar out of him


    32. We treated the Jacaranda flowers with much respect though and made sure to slow down whenever we saw it on the tar after a storm


    33. Man, I will never drive with a bike on a tar road in Africa in the summer


    34. This was two hundred and fifty kilometres downstream from the tar sands development in Alberta


    35. Royal Schnell Oil wanted to build a big new refinery, right here in Lennox; to process tar sands crude


    36. He spent his days drinking Flor de Caña rum in a rented room in Bluefields which, with the shifting wind, smelled alternately of fish or hot tar from a nearby asphalt plant


    37. caulk, a mass of tar and canvas, could be jammed onto a gash


    38. She would have to create fire using a flint block and a pile of dried brush, covered in highly flammable pitch tar


    39. Sparks leapt from the flint and a couple deflected onto the tar


    40. She held a wooden staff, doused in tar and bound with dried reeds, to the flame

    41. Instantly the tar caught alight, and the flaming torch burst into life


    42. Dig a pit around the hole; fill it with branches, tar and wood


    43. The large leaves were crafted into pots, containing the highly flammable mixture of tar and tree sap


    44. Why did I care? Did I care? Argyl carried the pouch of tar now


    45. To please him would mean more tar


    46. I pulled the pouch to me, opened it and had the tar in my mouth


    47. The rest lost in the black tar and the unthought of orgasm after orgasm


    48. In my mouth the blooming of flowers and Archmagio was pressing into my lips the black tar


    49. It was as if hot sticky tar dripped from each word he uttered when he spoke again, answering his own rhetorical question:


    50. “Do you know what this is?” he asked, holding a wad of black tar














































    1. Forest, its green scales tarred by the dust and grime of its resting


    2. The second roof was tarred and graveled like the


    3. burned at the stake and/or tarred and feathered


    4. The only difference was that you could smell the oily odor of automobiles and since they had just tarred my street that morning, the smell of fresh tar hung in the air as well


    5. Bradley would have been seen to be tarred by the same brush of failure as Eisenhower


    6. “That’s why I had her tarred and feathered first


    7. cruel and evil – but I often was tarred with the “she’s so conceited” brush


    8. Scaffolding, protected by tarred canvas, ran along its southern side


    9. He guessed the tarred canvas on the scaffolding had caught alight


    10. How can you expect any civilized person to voluntarily undergo any kind of fundamental change that might threaten their own position? Let one person challenge any normality, tradition, custom, or any socially-publicly accepted custom: and they are laughed at, vilified, denigrated, jailed, tarred and feathered, burned, ostracized, exiled, crucified, burned at the stake, shot, hung … the enormous resistance to all new truths has never changed throughout civilized history

    11. It showed only the violence, and tarred hundreds of democratic movements around the world as violent anarchist radicals when they were nothing of the sort


    12. Hitler was the first human being to propose this idea: This fact has been glossed over as not important… while all the other assholes who came later: all the hypocrites who spout Hitler’s original ideal solution but don’t mean what they say are extolled as humanitarians while Hitler is tarred as a monster: Exposes how full of shit and how one-sided and prejudiced the Jewish media is against this one man


    13. The morning sun shone on the asphalt, metal cars and tarred roof


    14. All tarred with the same brush Wiping pens in their stockings


    15. we'll have them tarred and feathered, and flung in the river!"


    16. Then came siding made of heavy tarred boards


    17. I still remember the opening day: me and Go, Mom and Dad, watching the festivities from the very back of the crowd in the vast tarred parking lot, because our father always wanted to be able to leave quickly, from anywhere


    18. Grange on the west side had been knocked down, and its place taken by rows of tarred sheds


    19. ” I’m new money, but I want to not be tarred with the same brush of new money


    20. With the pier gone, I knew, they knew, it was only a matter of time before the asphalt machines droned along and tarred over the railroad tracks and someone nailed shut the ticket office and broomed away the last of the confetti

    21. They would have tarred and feathered him if they could have caught him, but he was safe in Monterey, cooking his yen shi over a peanut-oil lamp


    22. In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway


    23. And therefore, let not the knights of that honourable company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are much better entitled to St


    24. He used to frequent the taverns on purpose (though not only with the object of studying the people), and plumed himself on his shabby clothes, tarred boots, and crafty wink and a flourish of peasant phrases


    25. People like Lyamshin and Telyatnikov, like Gogol's Tentyotnikov, drivelling home-bred editions of Radishtchev, wretched little Jews with a mournful but haughty smile, guffawing foreigners, poets of advanced tendencies from the capital, poets who made up with peasant coats and tarred boots for the lack of tendencies or talents, majors and colonels who ridiculed the senselessness of the service, and who would have been ready for an extra rouble to unbuckle their swords, and take jobs as railway clerks; generals who had abandoned their duties to become lawyers; advanced mediators, advancing merchants, innumerable divinity students, women who were the embodiment of the woman question—all these suddenly gained complete sway among us and over whom? Over the club, the venerable officials, over generals with wooden legs, over the very strict and inaccessible ladies of our local society


    26. Didn't you pat them on the back, your poets and caricaturists? Didn't you let Lyamshin kiss your hand? Didn't a divinity student abuse an actual state councillor in your presence and spoil his daughter's dress with his tarred boots? Now, can you wonder that the public is set against you?"


    27. I knew you were all tarred with one brush


    1. And how much celluloid did it actually take for 120 minutes of movie? Was somebody tarring an airfield with it? Both Candy and Flower revelled in the experience, describing it as like swimming with killer whales whilst dressed in a seal costume during the wrong time of the lunar cycle, hallucinogenics, all round bar keep and the horse will have a beer


    1. time (Tars in nowadays Turkey), and it was he who first


    2. Both Tighe and Tar stumbled, but quickly regained their composure, as Stu and Spock knocked the guns out of their hands with the rocks, followed by a large right hook to the chin of Tighe by Spock and a head butt on the bridge of Tars nose by Stu


    3. Pon grabbed Tighes head and with a sharp twist snapped Tighe’s neck and heaved his body on top of Tars


    4. They walked over to Tighe’s Hummer, the door was locked, but they had better luck with Tars Toyota Tiger parked nearby, he had left the passenger door open and the two lads got in


    5. There was sand on the flagstones and it crunched annoyingly under their feet as they pushed their way through a crowd of men dressed from tars to beggars and merchants to thieves


    6. “You could use the dockyard police force, but I wouldn’t, they’re mostly old tars who are used for


    7. These are linked to the coal tars released in the burning of the


    8. deposited in the bronchial tubes, and include nicotine, coal tars, and many other products


    9. The Portuguese held his tongue like a brick, and walked the plank, while the jolly tars cheered like mad


    10. They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious

    11. So he starts telling us about corporal punishment and about the crew of tars and officers and rearadmirals drawn up in cocked hats and the parson with his protestant bible to witness punishment and a young lad brought out, howling for his ma, and they tie him down on the buttend of a gun


    12. Red-faced Fishwives with Baskets of Fish upon their Heads and stout Pipes clench’d within their rotten Teeth, sold their Fishy Wares at the Water’s Edge, whilst Bum-Boat Women in little Skiffs ply’d the Waters in the Wake of the Great Merchantmen, selling all Manner of Grog and Provisions, doubtless priced well above their Worth, to the Tars who leant from their Ships to purchase ’em


    13. (We were fortunate to find an open Warehouse—guarded only by a half-blind old Watchman—and there, behind some Tuns of Wine, we transform’d ourselves into Tars!) This being accomplish’d, we hasten’d back to the First Mate of the Hopewell, lest he change his Mind in our Absence and depart without us


    14. Cocklyn) hurried us aboard, carrying our stuff’d Portmanteau; for he said he wanted us safely stow’d in his Cabin before the Tars could look us o’er properly (and perhaps discover us for the Women we were)


    15. The Majority of the Tars had not yet boarded, and already the Ship was so crowded, ’twas impossible to imagine how there should be room e’en for the smallish Crew that sail’d her!


    16. But with so much Sail, she’s a Bitch in a Gale, an’ many’s the Time I’ve seen the Tars scurryin’ to saw away the Mast ere the Wind heels ’em o’er into the Drink


    17. Our Masts trembl’d and quiver’d like Reeds in the Wind; our Sails were ripp’d and torn; and our Tars ran to and fro not knowing what to do first


    18. The Tars fell to their leathery Knees to thank God; for the Masts still stood in good Repair and the Sails could be repair’d in Time


    19. For Llewelyn, not being satisfied with these Measures, took the Opportunity of Cocklyn’s Confusion and Bleeding to grab his Arms, tye ’em behind him with a leather Thong, whereupon, whilst all the Tars lookt on in Horror, he slit his Gullet from his Rib Cage to his Navel, then drew out a Length of his Gut with his bare Hand and pinion’d the bloody Mess to the Ladder by Means of the second Dagger


    20. Tho’ the Tars had doubtless witness’d Attacks of Sailors’ Vapours before (wherein Mariners lost Ears, Eyes, and Noses as if they were so many Baubles), ne’er till now had most of ’em seen such a Torture as this carried out before ’em

    21. At this, the assembl’d Tars seem’d to breathe more freely


    22. The Crew had been small to start—Slavers oft’ had small Crews owing both to the Niggardliness of their Owners and to their Conviction that many Tars would dye anyway of Distempers in Guinea, whereupon they could be replaced by others from the Castle of the Trading Company—and it had been e’en more reduced by the Loss of Cocklyn, Llewelyn, and Thomas


    23. The Weather grew humid and hot as we drifted into the Southern Seas, and many Men sicken’d with the various Maladies to which all Tars are prone (and the Risque of which had been greatly increas’d by those Rotting Bodies upon the Deck)


    24. It scarce needs saying that the Tars were not pleas’d about this, distemper’d and unhappy as they were


    25. Imagine, then, our Plight: we drift inexorably toward Africa upon a Sailing Ship full of distemper’d Tars, enslav’d to a Maniack with an insatiable Passion for Piss and Shit, shorn of our Curls and Courage, cast into the most melancholick of Humours, knowing that each Day takes us further from finding Belinda alive upon this Earth and knowing also that we ourselves are not likely to survive the myriad Distempers of this Voyage


    26. “Until the Vessel clears the Channel,” he said, “the Seamen are not so badly us’d; for the Captain knows that any Wind may drive them back into an English Port and the Tars will then jump Ship


    27. Why, upon my first Voyage I saw Tars so ill-us’d that they committed Suicide in Shark-fill’d Waters


    28. In which our Heroine learns that no Man is such a Scoundrel that he doth not wish to be an Author, that e’en Slavers account themselves patriotick and virtuous, that the Sea is as full of Magick and Mystery as the Land, and that Ships oft’ become Pyrate Prizes as much thro’ the Connivance of their own Tars as thro’ any other Means


    29. Our Crew was much reduced, ’twas true, but Tars he hop’d to enlist when we reach’d our Trading Fort


    30. ” Were these poor Creatures not manacl’d where they lay? Were they not depriv’d of Chamber-Potts or any other civiliz’d Article in which to do Nature’s Bidding? Why e’en the Tars of the Hopewell had no better Accommodations for Nature’s Necessity than to climb out along the Bowsprit and thence discharge their Excrement into the Sea; for none but the Captain, the Surgeon, and the Sick had Close-Stools aboard our dismal little Brigantine

    31. “Come then, Lads,” said Lancelot, “let’s clap the Captain in Irons!” Whereupon Lancelot started for the Deck with Horatio and his Black Pyrates trailing him, after which the Officers and Tars of the Hopewell also follow’d with great Whoops of Delight


    32. Their Task was to inform the Mother Ship that the Prize had been taken, the Tars turn’d Pyrate, and all was well


    33. “Aye! Aye!” cried the Tars


    34. Here the Merry Men chear’d; but the Tars of the Hopewell lookt a bit confus’d, having ne’er heard of such Equality before


    35. “O ye Tars and Sea-Artists, Craftsmen and Sons of Apollo”—here I indicated the rude Drummers and Musicians to flatter ’em—“do not conclude from your late Success that Fortune always will be favourable! She will not always give you the Protection of Lancelot and his Merry Men! She will not always faithfully follow you across the perilous Seas! Remember, the Sun rises, comes to its meridian Height, and stays not there upon the Height, but at once begins to decline


    36. The Tars began to mutter amongst themselves


    37. “Aye, aye,” cried a Number of the Tars


    38. “O Lancelot,” said I, “I would have given my right Arm to come—my Starboard Arm as the old Tars say—but I was prevented by a jealous Wench within the Brothel where I earn’d my Keep


    39. Not only the former Tars of the Hopewell (now turn’d Pyrate) but Lancelot’s Pyrates, too, took the greatest Pleasure in pelting him with Bottles


    40. The Squall would pass, the Wind be fair again, and I would scramble down the Mast, breathing a Sigh of deep Relief whilst all the Tars and I drank Toasts in Grog to Fairer Winds to come

    41. In the commodious Hold of the Happy Delivery, where before had been Bars of Silver, Piles of Emeralds, Sacks of Golden Coins, were all our Tars bound Hand and Foot and gagg’d like rabid Dogs! Some few had been shot—tho’ none was kill’d—as Tokens, but most were unharm’d, yet so tightly bound that they could scarce move at all


    42. Why should I believe her regarding the Cassandra when she had beguil’d us regarding our Booty and perhaps e’en beguil’d our other Ships and Tars? Why had I such Confidence that as a loving Mother she’d be true to another loving Mother, e’en tho’ she had stolen our Gold and Jewels? Ah Fanny, thought I, you are still an Innocent in this Wicked World! Have you not yet learnt the Lesson that you must trust no one utterly? For Treachery e’er lurks around the Corner, and trust is the Enemy of those who would Survive!


    43. A Host of Tars were constantly needed to man the Pump, and the Loss of our Cargo had made us too light upon a heavy Sea


    44. Our Ship was in a Posture of Attack, but the Cassandra was wholly taken by Surprize, for the rough Seas had occupied her Tars so busily that she did not sight us until we were almost upon her


    45. The Sea rose in vast Mountains and gap’d in great Valleys, and the Tars of the Cassandra were engaged in furling Sail, (for she had such great Quantities of it, on all three Masts, that it took well-nigh fifty Men just to reef ’em), whilst we could manoeuvre much more rapidly


    46. Sev’ral of our Black Brothers ran to wedge the Cassandra’s Rudder, whilst Littlehat and Caveat and Puck swung their Boarding Axes at Cassandra’s Rigging, bringing down both Rope and Sail as well as the Tars who clung there in Terror for their Lives


    47. In the gen’ral Melee that follow’d, the Weather impeded the Defense of the Cassandra more than it harm’d our own Offensive, for Pyrates are better skill’d with Cutlass and Dirk than Common Tars, and steadier on their Feet upon a pitching Deck


    48. During our period of inactivity, Tars Tarkas had instructed me in many of the customs and arts of war familiar to the Tharks, including lessons in riding and guiding the great beasts which bore the warriors


    49. "How have you bewitched them?" asked Tars Tarkas one afternoon, when he had seen me run my arm far between the great jaws of one of my thoats which had wedged a piece of stone between two of his teeth while feeding upon the moss-like vegetation within our court yard


    50. "Show me how you accomplish these results," was Tars Tarkas' only rejoinder








































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "tar"

    gob jack jack-tar mariner old salt sea dog seafarer seaman tar pitch resin creosote distillate

    "tar" definitions

    any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue


    a man who serves as a sailor


    coat with tar