Tarred Sentence Examples

You look like you've been tarred and feathered.

Posts that are to be fixed in the ground should have their buried ends either charred or else well tarred.

Sometimes the wires are covered with the compound alone, and the whole cable after being sheathed is finally covered with tarred tape.

For tying plants to trellises and stakes soft tarred string or raffia (the fibre from the Raphia palm of Madagascar) is used.

The native practice of conveying wine in tarred skins was deleterious to its flavour, and is now for the most part abolished.

The tanks are commonly constructed of wood lined with lead, or tarred inside, and are placed in terrace fashion each a little higher than the next in series, to facilitate the flow of solution through them all from a cistern at one end to a well at the other.

Moreover, the high potential difference between the terminals of the series tank introduces a greater danger of shortcircuiting through scraps of metal at the bottom of the bath; for this reason, also, lead-lined vats are inadmissible, and tarred slate tanks are often used instead.

Thereafter various persons who had paid the excise tax, or had assisted in collecting it, were tarred and feathered or had their houses or barns burned.

The cloth, when finished, is cut up into lengths, made into bags and tarred.

You 're tarred and feathered with the rest of the scabby bastards.

In the same way many decent Germans were tarred with the brush of Adolf.

In 1748 a Protestant Episcopal Church was organized, and before and during the War of Independence its members belonged to the Loyalist party; their rector, Rev. James Nichols, was tarred and feathered by the Whigs, and Moses Dunbar, a member of the church, was hanged for treason by the Connecticut authorities.