tarp
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How to use tarp in a sentence
The men draped a tarp over the roof to prevent the camera flash lighting up the sky.
Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite | Bobbie Johnson | January 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewPopping outdoor diners under tarps to keep out the sun and rain during warm weather is one thing—if air is still freely flowing, you get most of the benefits of being outside.
When it comes to COVID-19 risk, what counts as ‘outdoor’ dining? | Sara Kiley Watson | January 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWith coronavirus protocols in place, enormous blue tarps with Wizards and Capital One branding cover seats where fans would be.
Wizards can’t seal the deal, fall to 0-2 with a loss to the Magic in their home opener | Ava Wallace | December 27, 2020 | Washington PostBurrow into the side of the quinzhee and retrieve the tarp and gear.
Winter survival shelters you should know how to build | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | December 21, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn 2008, lawmakers with considerable holdings in financial companies were about five percentage points more likely to support the creation of tarp than those without similar stakes.
Lawmakers with stock holdings vote in ways that juice their portfolios, data shows | Christopher Ingraham | December 10, 2020 | Washington Post
Instagram photos from that day show Finney and his crew setting up under a tarp outside.
FinnaRage Wants You to Rage at Its Parties. So What if It Ends Up a Riot? | Melanie Plenda | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI am carrying a well-worn satchel fashioned out of a recycled plastic tarp.
After he'd leashed the huskies up to the sled, Winkelmann deftly zipped me into a tarp-like blanket.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJust behind them, a tarp was pulled across a now flooded ditch.
The school is nothing more than a circle of rocks and stones and a tarp placed on the ground on which the students sit.
The Afghan Village That Saved Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau | November 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe put the things under a tarp, and I started to bring up the water, but General Ashley spoke.
Pluck on the Long Trail | Edwin L. SabinNext thing was to make a smudge under and to lay a tarp over to hold the smudge while the meat should smoke.
Pluck on the Long Trail | Edwin L. SabinInnumerable blankets, "tarp" beds, and war-sacks lay rolled ready for the pack-saddles.
Tenting To-night | Mary Roberts RinehartHe slept on Dan's tarp bed at night, and in the daytime led our long and winding procession.
Tenting To-night | Mary Roberts RinehartNorris even made a sort of steamer chair of poles, using a double thickness of his tarp for the seat and back.
Unexplored! | Allen Chaffee
British Dictionary definitions for tarp (1 of 2)
/ (tɑːp) /
US, Australian and NZ an informal word for tarpaulin
British Dictionary definitions for TARP (2 of 2)
/ (tɑːp) /
Troubled Assets Relief Program: a fund providing money to increase the liquidity of financial institutions
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