How to Use tar in a Sentence

tar

1 of 2 noun

• As the tar was peeled away, flesh came off in strips.
  — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
• And maybe even tar and feather you, or worse.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• The project plowed through tar and oil wells that needed to be capped.
  — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
• Vladimir’s comedy gets as dark and sticky as tar.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
• Heavy and sour crude oil is what it’s called (and much of it is extra-heavy or tar-like).
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
• This will remove dirt, tar, and insects as well as buff out small scratches.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2025
• The results showed that pine tree resin or tar (pitch) was the main component.
  — ArsTechnica, 2 May 2026
• Our ancient ancestors loved their birch tar.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Mar. 2026
• These elephants are forced to walk in the hot sun on scorching tar roads, often while in poor health.
  — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2025
• Marissa Brown said some of it was tar from the roof, which burned her and her 1-year-old son.
  — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Or was somebody torching tar shingles on a roof somewhere?
  — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
• Video from the scene shows traffic cones and warning signs posted around pools of tar that are covered with sand.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Round, hefty, bright aromas of blackberries, red cherries and tar.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• His feet hit tar, finally going after her.
  — ‘pemi Aguda, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
• Aromas of red fruit with a lick of tar, violet and primroses.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Beachgoers have been dealing with tar balls since before Texas was a state.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Quite a scrumptious array of rich and creamy aromas of licorice, tar and cherry parfait.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Every portrait was tar-dipped to reflect the proportion of each man’s life spent in prison.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Part of the ranch has natural tar seeps, and oil drilling there dates back to the 1870s.
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
• This happens when creosote—a tar-like residue that clings to the inside of the chimney—ignites.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
• Bio-tar, long a bioenergy villain, could turn into a goldmine!
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
• Seven snakes and seven birds have been killed after coming into contact with tar mats or tar balls.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• In the lab, the team exposed the tar samples to different strains of bacteria.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Mar. 2026
• And a partial human fingerprint found in tar residue could provide a direct link to one of the ship’s crew.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
• When tar is reapplied, the entire exterior takes on the same deep, almost black sheen.
  — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Beaches have reopened, aided by crews picking up tar balls and by ocean currents, wind, and wave action.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2021
• Pitch is a black, tar-like substance that was once commonly used for waterproofing boats.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
• These soy candles that are infused with pine, cedar and birch tar essential oils are the next best thing to being outside.
  — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Rich and delicate and complex aromas of red and black cherries and tartan biscuits, mocha and tar.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Apply bug and tar remover to the area, following the directions on the package.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 May 2026

tar

2 of 2 verb

• They just can't all be tarred with a broad brush as being evil.
  — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Dec. 2025
• It was tarred, feathered and run out of town on a Brightline rail.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
• Some loyalists were tarred and feathered, scalped, or even hanged.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
• None of us were tarred and feathered for simply asking the question.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• Sadly, because of these two, all the sisters were tarred with the same brush, which is most unfair.
  — Mimi Pond, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Critics often tar him as a jet-setter, out of touch with the lives of ordinary people.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• Despite this experience, Gisèle warns against tarring all men with the same brush.
  — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
• This is often how prosecutors use leaks to the media to tar a target’s reputation.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2021
• Opponents of feminism in China have tarred the movement as pitching women above men.
  — Siyi Zhao, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• School officials have tried to reserve tarring for times when students aren’t in classrooms — like after school or over the weekends, Baxter said.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• An Altuzarra knit two-piece that made its wearer look like they had been tarred and feathered, but beautifully rather than as some heinous ancient punishment.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
• Trump’s popularity may wane and his friends and allies be tarred by their association with a figure most of the country would rather forget.
  — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
• Liberals tar the protest as racist, but the peaceful populist uprising is notable and some of the protesters’ gripes are legitimate.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• Whether more moderate candidates can effectively be tarred with Mamdani's agenda remains to be seen.
  — Ben Adler, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
• Macaulay hasn’t talked to his father in years, but he wasn’t tarred by Kit’s power-hungry my-way-or-the-highway strongarming, using his solid gold son as his leverage.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
• House Bill 1095 is a good piece of legislation tarred by a bad amendment that loosens requirements for public notices.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
• Well compound when Phil — tarred and feathered by his Aryan brothers, presumably for squawking to Lee back in episode two — runs screaming into his arms.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
• And Democrats in swing districts should be worried that the Afghanistan surrender will again tar Democrats as weak on national security.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
• One abominable practice used on political adversaries was tarring and feathering.
  — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
• The opposition, meanwhile, has been divided and tarred by the past failures of the PAN and two other parties in the coalition.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The move has been met with dismay by many Ukrainians on the island, who say that most of the incidents involve Russians and that they are being unfairly tarred with the same brush.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• In this way, the bro construction exploits the vaguely negative connotations attached to masculinity in order to tar something else with the same brush.
  — Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
• The Obama-era loan office was tarred by accusations of cronyism; dollars had a way of going to the politically connected.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• The ever closer alliance between health experts and political leaders is likely to tar the former with the distrust directed towards the latter.
  — Shadim Hussain, Wired, 21 Nov. 2020
• To be clear, Oliver-Dávila and Rivera were wrong to tar an entire neighborhood as racist because some residents opposed this change in policy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• Kreutzer cuts clunkily and repeatedly between the ongoing crises in two households, presumably implying that the men in these women’s lives are all tarred with the same patriarchal brush.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 May 2026
• For a platform provider like Google that seeks to stay above the fray, Pichai recognized the risks of being tarred with the same brush as many partisan cable media outlets and daily newspapers.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• By all accounts, the department failed to anticipate the furor that the creation of the advisory panel would cause — as well as the ease with which critics would tar it with the very kind of campaigns it was meant to monitor.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• Investment has dried up, regulators are cracking down, and the reputation of the businesses that remain standing has been tarred by association.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
• The slightest mistake could tar his decades-long career in government, bring national embarrassment to Broward County — and could even affect who becomes the next president.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2020