How do you use Tarp in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like tarpaulin or canvas, plus the exact meaning.
Tarp in a sentence
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Tarp meaning
Clipping of tarpaulin (“covering”).
Using Tarp
- The main meaning on this page is: Clipping of tarpaulin (“covering”).
- Useful related words include: tarpaulin, canvas, canvas fabric, canvass.
- In the example corpus, tarp often appears in combinations such as: the tarp, tarp on, tarp and.
Context around Tarp
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tarp
- In this selection, "tarp" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, program, industrial, sturdy, recipients, bailout and covered stand out and add context to how "tarp" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blue tarp on the and a green tarp into place. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tarp" sits close to words such as alves, amerindian and andreescu, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tarp
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tarp covers the field at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. (11 words)
Some say do, and others say don’t, cover the pile with a tarp. (14 words)
Covering the entire load with a sturdy tarp (which is then tied down) or netting. (15 words)
Randy Netmaker eats a bowl of donated food as he sits by heated coals to stay warm under a tarp which is part of a makeshift camp on Halifax street for those experiencing homelessness on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 in Regina. (41 words)
And Major League Baseball cited the Cubs for “failure to properly wrap and spool the tarp after its last use” in its press release announcing the decision to uphold the Giants’ protest, which led to the resumption of the game. (40 words)
At Legacy Ranches, Jared Fernandes, 51, a third-generation dairy farmer, jumped atop his dairy digester to demonstrate the strength of the massive industrial tarp, which covers an unseen manure lagoon about the size of a football field. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Research shows that Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) recipients were twice as likely to participate in the program than other commercial paper issuers who did not take advantage of the TARP bailout.
And Major League Baseball cited the Cubs for “failure to properly wrap and spool the tarp after its last use” in its press release announcing the decision to uphold the Giants’ protest, which led to the resumption of the game.
At Legacy Ranches, Jared Fernandes, 51, a third-generation dairy farmer, jumped atop his dairy digester to demonstrate the strength of the massive industrial tarp, which covers an unseen manure lagoon about the size of a football field.
Covering the entire load with a sturdy tarp (which is then tied down) or netting.
Friday night's series opener with Tampa Bay was called about an hour after the scheduled first pitch and rescheduled for Monday at 4:05 p.m. The tarp was never removed from the field.
He called police to report Adam "AJ" Blackstock Jr. missing and to let them know about the vehicle, which appeared to be in a Kansas City, Missouri, driveway, covered by a tarp, the reports.
Minutes prior, a man stationed just outside El Tiangue began taking clothes from a shopping cart and laying them out onto a tarp on the sidewalk within plain view of three Public Works inspectors and police officers.
Police and fire officials put a blue tarp on the wrecked van and placed a barrier near one of the trucks to block the view of the scene, according to the Democrat-Herald.
Randy Netmaker eats a bowl of donated food as he sits by heated coals to stay warm under a tarp which is part of a makeshift camp on Halifax street for those experiencing homelessness on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 in Regina.
Since the summer of 2022, Loyola students have had a view of tarp-covered fences in the heart of their campus.
Some say do, and others say don’t, cover the pile with a tarp.
Tarp covers the field at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
The farm will supply a saw if you need one, but she also advises to bring a tarp and a ball of twine for putting the tree in the trunk of the car, or on the roof.
The grounds crew consisting of Blue Wahoos front office staff raced to get the tarp on the field before the rain fell.
The locker room was a temporary, modest facility with a tin roof, and weight-lifting equipment for players sat outside under a tarp.
When we spoke on May 10, they were waiting for their own small wood-and-plastic-tarp bivouac there.
But a story on says the sign was found behind a building on property owned by the township and it was not covered by a tarp and was in pretty rough shape.
For this reason, any good poly tarp will have an anti-UV coating (make sure it’s on both sides).
In late April, a crane lowered a 4,173-kilogram white granite base onto the statue's future home, then dangled the statue, shrouded in a green tarp, into place.
Natasha claimed the two backseat passengers used a 'tarp' to cover the back windshield so the male driver could switch seats with the female passenger.
Common combinations with tarp
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tarp 15×
- tarp on 6×
- tarp and 6×
- blue tarp 4×
- under tarp 4×
- tarp in 4×
- tarp which 3×
- tarp to 3×
- tarp over 3×
- by tarp 2×