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tarpaulin
Example Sentences
The 840-denier nylon tarpaulin TPU—a material commonly used in whitewater-rafting gear—resists punctures and abrasions.
Made from thick vinyl tarpaulin, this tent is designed to withstand extreme weather year-round.
On Tuesday, the group witnessed a convoy of 43 unmarked green military trucks with tarpaulin covers moving towards Donetsk.
When we were kids and some rain would come up, the fans would jump out of the stands to help spread the tarpaulin on the field.
Alina Vergana, 41, was sitting beneath a tarpaulin stretched to keep off the burning sun.
The statue of Joe Paterno has been removed, covered in a blue tarpaulin and carted off into the dust and dark of storage.
A tarpaulin stretched from wheel to wheel of the wagon shut out the driving rain that fled in sheets before the whooping wind.
There was a rip and a crack, and the released tarpaulin was a hundred yards away, flapping grotesquely over the sandhills.
The tarpaulin hung like a sheet between the Little Douvre and the bark, and sunk in the water.
There was a large tarpaulin in the launch, and this Alan wrapped about the girl's shoulders.
The lads found that a pair of blankets had been assigned to each of them, with an ordinary wagon sheet doubled for a tarpaulin.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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