Tarpaulin

Definition

tarpaulin /tɑ:'pↄ:lÇn/ n [C, U] မိုးေရခံဖ်င္။ တာေပၚလင္စ။ a truck covered by a tarpaulin.

Examples

1. ‘The tiles were covered in tarpaulin and pegged down while the police were informed.’
2. ‘New Malden firefighters
3. sitting out during the strike in a hut made of wooden pallets and tarpaulin in front of the station
4. remained defiant but uncertain what the stoppage would bring.’
5. ‘The cause of the crash was not clear although a set of wheels came off the final carriage and investigators covered a set of points immediately behind the accident scene with blue tarpaulin
6. suggesting a fault on either train or track.’
7. ‘Today there are 50 families living on the same stretch of pavement where she had erected a lean-to with tarpaulin in the early 1980s.’
8. ‘Red lanterns suspended from bamboo poles crisscross the streets while bamboo stalls topped with colorful tarpaulin litter the sidewalks.’
9. ‘In Kindamba he improvised a splint from palm branches and asked a carpenter to make another
10. around which tarpaulin would be wrapped.’
11. ‘Conditions were hard with up to 10
12. 000 people living in squalor under tarpaulin and surviving on corn meal and wheat.’
13. ‘They put up temporary housing made out of mud
14. out of bamboo
15. out of thatch
16. out of tarpaulin
17. out of corrugated steel.’
18. ‘Soldiers stood or sat on them and the vehicles were enclosed with tarpaulin.’
19. ‘Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was covered in tarpaulin to prevent onlookers seeing the body.’
20. ‘No
21. they insist
22. quickly hiding paint pots under some nearby tarpaulin.’
23. ‘The three-and-a-half-hour struggle to make the area safe ended when the fire crews managed to get tarpaulin over the roof and made the ground debris safe.’
24. ‘A quantity of drugs were recovered from the house and a high-value car
25. which was found covered by tarpaulin in the front garden
26. was removed to be stripped down and examined.’
27. ‘Crews have covered the roof with salvage tarpaulin to protect the house from the weather while repairs are made.’
28. ‘Endless hours of coverage of a grey Wimbledon with green tarpaulin over the courts does little to promote the tournament as one of the great sporting events of the 21st century.’
29. ‘The sun was quite low when the train pulled into another yard
30. and he had covered them with tarpaulin once again.’
31. ‘He said the remaining topsoil had been hosed down and covered with polythene and tarpaulin.’
32. ‘The option was of course
33. to down tools
34. rush off to the Hyper Value
35. buy a big piece of tarpaulin and cover the huge open space in our front wall.’
36. ‘And I have the greatest almost-garden thing of all - an almost-shed
37. which is lying underneath tarpaulin in 300 bits waiting to become a proper shed.’
38. ‘A 60-inch-high canopy stands over a chunk of a masonry wall now lying flat on a piece of bright blue plastic tarpaulin.’