Explore Tarred through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tarred meaning
simple past and past participle of tar
Using Tarred
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of tar
- In the example corpus, tarred often appears in combinations such as: tarred and, be tarred, tarred with.
Context around Tarred
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tarred
- In this selection, "tarred" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pine, same, house, road, bat and effigies stand out and add context to how "tarred" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include avoiding being tarred as separatists and being publicly tarred with the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tarred" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tarred
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Maybe the Democrats’ violent wing, Antifa and BLM, has tarred the party. (12 words)
Discover the shocking true story of tarred effigies, scandal, and resilience in 1870s Torrington. (14 words)
He argued this 'lambasted' men and boys with the same 'tarred brush of paranoia'. (14 words)
But there is also the chance that since the entire judicial system cannot be tarred so broadly with the same brush, Farotimi’s allegation might receive a dispassionate hearing that might deliver justice as we expect it. (37 words)
The judge made a police report with the scene later attended by the police officers who managed to pick a blank 9mm cartridge on the tarred road outside the judge’s home. (32 words)
Also, the chief regional officer would oversee the rehabilitation of tarred and gravel roads; check on the building of schools; as well as promote investment to ensure job creation and poverty eradication. (32 words)
One can count on your fingers the number of tarred roads in Banjul or Kanifing Municipality or Brikama or Farafeni or Basse which are among the biggest towns in the Gambia! (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Barring George Brett’s pine-tarred bat, there’s almost no equivalent of that in baseball.
I’m sure if Peter Malinauskus and Kyam Maher closed down their local bottle shop they would be tarred and feathered by constituents.
It will, unfortunately, be tarred with the same brush of mistrust which the public applies to the government at large,” Outa says.
The judge made a police report with the scene later attended by the police officers who managed to pick a blank 9mm cartridge on the tarred road outside the judge’s home.
But it doesn't stop them being tarred with the same brush often used against City.
But there is also the chance that since the entire judicial system cannot be tarred so broadly with the same brush, Farotimi’s allegation might receive a dispassionate hearing that might deliver justice as we expect it.
Discover the shocking true story of tarred effigies, scandal, and resilience in 1870s Torrington.
He argued this 'lambasted' men and boys with the same 'tarred brush of paranoia'.
We were also able to get the front of the house tarred to make it easier for me to get in and out.
Finally, violence broke out – one tax collector was tarred and feathered, and another’s home was set ablaze.
Maybe the Democrats’ violent wing, Antifa and BLM, has tarred the party.
This Flintstone looking m'farker needs to tarred and feathered, and left to cook in stocks in the Florida sun.
For decades, Uighur intellectuals manoeuvred carefully, working to advance their culture while avoiding being tarred as separatists or extremists.
It is NOT anti-semitic to criticise the settler-colonial, human-rights abusing movement of modern Zionism, though many such critics have been tarred with with the anti-semitic brush.
One can count on your fingers the number of tarred roads in Banjul or Kanifing Municipality or Brikama or Farafeni or Basse which are among the biggest towns in the Gambia!
Outcome is the effect of the budget activities or any change attributable to the budget activities e.g. expansion of market as a result of road tarred.
The construction company, after digging the tarred road during roadworks to install new stormwater channels, left the road with dangerous sink holes unattended to.
The result was D-Day heroes being publicly tarred with the murder and torture of children.
Thus, it recently tarred VanDyke as “Not Qualified,” just as it once did to Robert Bork.
Also, the chief regional officer would oversee the rehabilitation of tarred and gravel roads; check on the building of schools; as well as promote investment to ensure job creation and poverty eradication.
Common combinations with tarred
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tarred and 7×
- be tarred 5×
- tarred with 5×
- the tarred 4×
- tarred road 4×
- of tarred 3×
- being tarred 2×
- was tarred 2×
- tarred the 2×
- and tarred 2×