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Example sentences for "tar"

Lexicographically close words:
tapster; tapsters; tapu; tapul; tapus; tarantass; tarantella; tarantelle; tarantula; tarantulas
  1. Among those who had come over in the Phoenix were workmen who understood the making of turpentine, tar and soap ashes.

  2. The pine tree is cut into short pieces, even the roots being used, for, if I mistake not, more tar may be had from the roots than from the trunks of the tree.

  3. You was just as anxious as I was to tar and feather him.

  4. The tar and feather proposal seemed to meet with general favor.

  5. If they try to tar and feather me it will be a risky business.

  6. You can accept part of that as pay for what you did in the tar and feathering game," added Tom.

  7. Additionally, many different systems can read tar files, making them highly portable.

  8. Tells tar to use gzip compression automatically; if you use this, it's good to add a .

  9. This means that tar can take many files and combine them all into one large file or write them out to a backup device such as a tape drive.

  10. GNU tar (short for Tape ARchiver) is an implementation of what is probably the most widely used backup or archiving utility in Linux today.

  11. For more details, see the tar manual page; instructions for viewing manual pages can be found in section 5.

  12. This says to be verbose; that is, it tells tar to let you know what it's doing while it creates the archive.

  13. Because tar is used so much, and for quite a bit in addition to backups, it is being described here.

  14. You can unpack these with a command like: tar -zxvf filename.

  15. With the appropriate packages installed, cd into the directory that tar created for you.

  16. Let's take a look at how this command can be broken down: tar Name of the command.

  17. Hence, tar offers a great way to distribute programs and data on the Internet, and you'll find that it is used extensively for this purpose.

  18. Han tar Veien opover Marken igjen han og, her passer han paa at være Farn og Jensine saa nær i Hælene som han kan uten at bli set.

  19. Han begynder sit Arbeide i Skogen igjen, og naar han er færdig med at fælde tar han paa at kjøre Stok til Sagen paa Sellanraa.

  20. Such was the universal belief in spells, of which some traces may yet remain in the wild parts of the country.

  21. If they myght assemble xl M as good men as I nowe sawe, xv c or ij M, it wold bee a hard encountre to mete theym.

  22. Thair war ten or twelve gentlemen slane of the kingis folk, and als mony of theiris, or mea, as was said, and a dosone or xvi tane.

  23. There is noo herdyer, ner bettir knyght, but often tyme he doth not use the most sure order, which he hath nowe payed derely for.

  24. Charms, however, against spiritual enemies, were yet more common than those intended to cure corporeal complaints.

  25. All those amorous emblems would seem to argue our true tar inconstant as the wind, with which he has so oft to contend.

  26. Even the big bounty offered does not tempt another tar from the saloons of San Francisco.

  27. The tar who attempts to take French leave will have a severe swim for it; perchance get a shot sent after, that may send him to the bottom of the sea.

  28. We afterwards got ovens and skillets, "spiders," as the Tar Heels called them, and had better bread.

  29. As I was going back to report to the general I met the Tar Heel captain, a small, pale-faced youth.

  30. These Tar Heels were as badly scared as we were, each side taking the other for the enemy.

  31. And let every jolly tar who loves his family and domestic peace, and wants to do his duty and be respected in this world, and lay an anchor to windward of another and better world, toe the plank, and sign the pledge right off the reel.

  32. Its secretion becomes changed from a bright yellow to a green or black, and from a thin fluid to a substance resembling tar in its consistence.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    target practice; tariff bill; tarragon vinegar; tarry here; tarsal fold; tart apples; tartar emetic; tartaric acid