I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coal tar
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coal tar soap
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A naked man covered in tar and soot slithered by in pursuit of three young, giggling girls.
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His facial scars radiating ridges pigmented with tar or carbon pictured some many-legged mutant spider.
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Rating cigarettes by tar and nicotine content, much as gasoline is rated by octane levels.
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The amount of tar in cigarettes is also important but less so than the number smoked or duration of smoking.
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The clean smell of pine tar rose in the air, and Sam began counting rings.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kleider has been tarred by recent business scandals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he was tarred with Estabrook's guilt.
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Candles and tarred kindling, and spices, Carrie thought, wrinkling her nose.
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I was tarred with the same brush, to a certain extent.
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Ralph even tarred the roof gutters and fixed a leak by the chimney.
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Suspected abolitionists were tarred, feathered, and run out of town; antislavery literature was burned.
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This is not an attempt to tar all forms of Centralism with the same brush.