tar
Example Sentences
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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
Although researchers cannot determine exactly who left it, they believe it may have been pressed into the tar during a repair by a crew member.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026
“This is a global location. People around the world come to see the tar pits.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 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
Early in the morning though it was, the tar beneath the shingled roof was beginning to bubble in the hot July sun.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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