tarpaper
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tarpaper
Example Sentences
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They combine flimsy-looking tarpaper with oversized driftwood because that is what is to hand.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2018
As a child, Mr. Mancini, 56, lived in a tarpaper shack in No Cash, a nearby station for the mine’s tramline, before his family moved to Keno.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2017
I have been writing replies to her students ever since, most recently to Minami Funakoshi, whose question had to do with my book “The Pine Barrens” and a couple of people in a tarpaper shanty.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015
Until this year they lived in a wood and tarpaper shack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy Ray’s childhood, then, consisted of sorrowful years in tarpaper shacks, much ill health, and general all-around human disaster.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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