tar
Example Sentences
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He also sells Shilajit, which almost looks like tar.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Pike perch tartare from Lake Oulujärvi rests on malt bread with capers and dill oil and a whisper of pine tar.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
He will be battling a Frankenstein-like rival mammoth built by scientists from a jumble of various mammoth bones also plucked from the tar pits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
"If you're small enough, pushing on water is like pushing through tar," says Miskin.
From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026
The air smells like wet tar and shower-soaked earth.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
