tarp
Example Sentences
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The bases consist of simple tents and tarps, easy to move in the event of an attack.
From Barron's
The steady drizzle tested the limits of the string of tarps stretched across the backyard of a Maywood home.
From Los Angeles Times
Vendors there were hawking shoes, used power tools and watches under tattered blue tarps.
Mr. Wink conjures a land of “trees like skyscrapers, like celestial tent pegs pounded into the earth to hold the black tarp of the sky in place.”
Eventually, he surrendered to the wind, and the tarp became a half-torn sail — his flag.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
