plural tarps
: a piece of material (such as durable plastic or waterproofed canvas) used especially for protecting exposed objects or areas : tarpaulin
The crewmen competed for a place to stand beneath the small tarp that covered part of the narrow deck.—
Matt Potts
Matt PottsThis house, half of it's all burned up. They live there, the burned part's covered with a tarp, with their dogs, and they must have at least ten.—Katya Reno
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Remove firewood, bricks, boards, tarps, or vegetation up against the house, which shelters insects that provide food for spiders, says Gray.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
But one worker is stuck high above the stage wrapped in a tarp.
—Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
It was covered now by a blue tarp.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Officers assisted with holding a tarp at the bottom to cushion the wild animal's fall, which was caught on camera and shared on the Tucson Police Department Facebook on September 18.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
But one worker is stuck high above the stage wrapped in a tarp.
—Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
It was covered now by a blue tarp.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Officers assisted with holding a tarp at the bottom to cushion the wild animal's fall, which was caught on camera and shared on the Tucson Police Department Facebook on September 18.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tarp
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“Tarp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarp. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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