He fished a little deeper, turned back a folded tarp and laid naked to his eyes the top of a whisky keg.
We hastily rigged a tarp on a pair of oars spliced for a mast, and proceeded at a care-free pace.
I moored her to a drift log, lowered sail, flung a tarpover us, and went to sleep again.
Driving the oar half-way into the soft sand, we wrapped the boat's chain about it and went to bed, flinging the tarp over us.
He slept on Dan's tarp bed at night, and in the daytime led our long and winding procession.
Inside were the spruce needles that carpeted the ground and had been kept dry by branches, and a second tarp had been laid to sleep on, with the third tarp to cover us, on top of the blankets.
The tarp is simple and cheap and is easily accommodated to circumstances.
Then the whole is turned back upon itself at the middle; one edge of the tarp is tucked under, and part of the other edge, making a bag, with leeway enough so that the sleeper can crawl in.
Next thing was to make a smudge under and to lay a tarp over to hold the smudge while the meat should smoke.
Both ends of the tarp are left bare, of course, for the bedding is shorter than the tarp.
When the road was clear again I pulled the tarp to cover the ankle and shoe, but it pulled clear of his head and my stomach spasmed and I could not look at him.
I waited while traffic went by and then spread the tarp over Grassman.
Carley, you crawl in here, pile the blankets up, and the tarp over them," directed Glenn.
If it rains pull thetarp up over your head--and let it rain.
I lay awake in my tarp watchin' him for some time; but I was so sore and weary myself I could scarcely recall what business I was on, and first I knew I had drifted off--and been shook awake again.
After a time the Friar did go to bed in Horace's tarp in the corner.
After this Horace took a tarp into Badger's room an' bedded himself down in a corner, which was all around the most handy thing he could do; but the rest of us had a regular pest of a time with that rat.
I looked at these two a minute, and then I had to pull my head under the tarp to keep from laughin'.
I unrolled my tarp close to the fire and crawled into it, intendin' to take my rest while I listened to Tank unfold his story.
The Friar's tarp was next to mine, an' I raised myself on my elbow an' looked at it.
Sidenote: A Modification] In case you have eggs or glassware to pack, spread your tarp on the horse twice as long as usual.
If you happen to be alone, a saddle blanket will supplement the tarp to give some sort of protection to your feet, and, provided it is stretched tightly, will shed quite a downpour.
In case of continued or heavy rain, you stretch a pack rope between two trees or crossed poles, and suspend the tarp over it tent wise, tying down the corners by means of lead ropes.
When it rains you'll wake, an' then just pull the tarp up over you," he said.
Better slip under the blankets so I can pull the tarp up.
My day was a busy one, and I had an early dinner at the Savage Club with Tarp Henry, to whom I gave some account of my adventures.
This was the letter that I read aloud to Tarp Henry, who had come down early to hear the result of my venture.
Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone!
The call meant that the wagon was to be moved to-day; that each man was to roll bedding and tarp to a hard and tight-roped cylinder, and was then to carry it to a stack by the bed wagon.
Each man or each two men brought tarp and bedding on a pack horse.
Maybe they save up till they get a wagonload of saddles, cover them up with a tarp or maybe some farm truck, and drive whistlin' down the big road to El Paso.
Johnny unharnessed; he unrolled a tarp which wrapped a quarter of beef, and hung the beef on the big brake; he filled the ten-gallon coffee kettle and took it to the fire.
Wind scraped at the tarp with a sandpapering sound: it tapped on the truck cab and clicked on its glass.
As Dennison dragged Chuck under the tarp he realized he would never see again: he tried to shield his wounded face, the man sobbing, breathing in gasps, his blond, pallid face distorted.
Somebody had spread a tarp overhead to cut down on the spray of sand.
Enjoying a smoke he perched on the rear of his bus: crews were shoveling sand away from the tanks, bedding treads with tarp and gravel.
Azariah did not sleep but rolled uneasily on his tarp watching the bright, dry stars, muttering to himself now and then.
The tarp and blankets were drilled by five bullet holes.
The man jerked the tarp from the pack, and seizing the rifle tossed it into the cabin.
For two days they were storm bound, venturing out only to feed the dogs and from time to time to relieve the tarp roof of its burden of snow.
The loaded toboggans were tipped on edge, one along either side, and the heavy canvas shelter tarp was stretched over these and weighted down by doubling its edges under the toboggans.
The mate pulled the tarp over Matt's head and tied it about his waist.
Take the waist-tarp and go up into the conning tower.
Then, with deft fingers, he made the circular tarp fast along the edge of the hatch.
He made camp just out of sight around a point of rocks from the smoke, stretching the canvas tarp which had floored the tent to make shelter between boulders.
He pulled his tarp over his ears, hot as it was, to shut out the sound.
She said she had gone out our back door the week before and crawled under a pile of fallen leaves on the ground in our back yard with a blacktarp over them.
We had looked under the tarp at least fifty times during the days past, but never thought to look under the leaves as well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
