were tarring
- past progressive of tar.
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But others — most prominently, the board chairman — were angry that a private conversation had been made public, and felt that a small group of professors and student journalists were tarring the Mount name.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2016
They were tarring the road, so she brought two twists from Jewel.
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