Julia ran round, and stood petrified, her pale lips apart, and all her innocent joy frozen in a moment The tarpauling was scanty there, and a man's hand and part of his arm dangled helpless out.
Julia had seen two men carrying a trestle with a tarpauling over it, and a third walking beside.
Later on the open carriages were improved by placing iron hoops over the top and tarpauling over these, something after the fashion of a railway van in our streets now.
The tarpauling now rested upon the raft, a distended mass, like the stomach of some huge animal coated with tar.
This occupied only a few seconds of time; and the tarpauling soon lay detached between the extemporised masts, that were still permitted to remain as they had been "stepped.
Some did escape, but only a very little; and they at length succeeded in getting the tarpauling formed into a sort of bag, puckered around the mouth.
It was the piece of rope which closed the mouth of their tarpauling water-bag, and held the latter in such a position as to keep the "cask" from leaking.
For the former they could do nothing more than had been already done,-- further than to cover the tarpauling that contained it with several folds of the spare sail-cloth, in order that no ray of the sun should get near it.
I heard Jarvis explaining that an empty pork-tub, with a tarpauling inside of it, would hold quite a deal of the rainwater washing above the bottom-boards.
Run a tarpaulinginside of that cask--and bale, you, Prout and Martinez!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarpauling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
