Sentence examples for tar from inspiring English sources
"tar" is a correct and usable word in written English
It mostly refers to a type of thick, black, sticky substance made from the dry distillation of organic matter – typically coal or wood. For example, "They used tar to waterproof the roof."
noun
A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
To avoid catastrophic climate change by keeping the global temperature rise below 2C, the fossil fuel industry needs to leave 82% of today's coal reserves in the ground and Canada's tar sands must go almost untouched.
Over the past two years in the US, concerned citizens have been galvanised to march, rally, campaign and get arrested to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – a project to pump a reported 830,000 tonnes of one of the world's dirtiest fossil fuels from Canada to Texas.
"It looks like a stalling mechanism to get large shareholders on board but from a grass roots level commitments to tackling climate change and continuing with tar sands are incompatible".
The family plans to first divest from tar sands commitments.
Meanwhile, controversial exploitation of oil and gas reserves in the Arctic could release 520m tonnes of CO2 a year, with further major emissions set to flow from other new fossil fuel frontiers, such as tar sands oil in Canada and shale gas in the US.
Popular beaches along nearly seven miles (11 kilometres) of Los Angeles-area coastline were off-limits to surfing and swimming on Thursday as scientists looked for the source of globs of tar that washed ashore.
African roads are getting better every year – it will soon be possible to drive the length of the continent without going off-tar.
The series' match of bleak gunplay to everyday domesticity resurfaces in the crisp, clattering arthouse thriller Blue Ruin (Channel 4 DVD, 15), its slow-smouldering story of a Virginia vagrant on a complicated revenge trail calling to mind the Coen brothers in its ruthless structural efficiency and tar-dark humour.
Unless the price of oil dropped below $75 a barrel (it is now about $97), tar-sands producers could absorb the cost of rail transport, the report said.
The boss of Total, another big oil firm, puts the cost of developing new tar-sands operations at $90 a barrel.
But it serves no good purpose to distort their beliefs and far less to tar-brush the peaceable PNV.
