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tarp
noun as in canvas
noun as in cover
noun as in drop cloth
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Glenn has used questions to prompt immediate executive action, such as the removal of the White House Peace Vigil tarp — a round-the-clock protest for global disarmament that stood in Lafayette Square since 1981.
But two decades on, the grim reaper still walks the rows: 110 degrees, no tree, no tarp, a single water jug growing warm, its handle slick from dust and hands.
They sleep in dirty, overcrowded shipping containers, infested with bugs, or on the floor of unfinished apartment blocks, with tarps pulled over the door frames to try to keep out the cold.
Duran and Morales were there too, asleep inside an orange tent, a black tarp draped over it for shade.
As the sun beat down, water jugs were stationed every few yards and tarps providing shade coverage were stationed around the perimeter of the rows of crops.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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