How to Use pine tar in a Sentence

pine tar

noun
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  • Your ship didn’t go to sea unless it was soaked in pine tar.
    — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
  • For that matter, bring your own pine tar to the on-deck circle, your own rosin bag to the mound.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • The smoke gets more intense as the whisky opens up and takes on more of a charred wood and pine tar character.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • Hitters will carry their own pine tar and donut to the on-deck circle.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 25 June 2020
  • Gray hit in the previous half-inning and wiped pine tar on his leg.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 20 July 2021
  • Batters are asked not to share pine tar sticks or batting donuts for warmup swings.
    — Dallas News, 23 July 2020
  • Gallen figured the pine tar came from the bat of the Mets’ Francisco Lindor, who just got jammed on a pop out to third.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2022
  • After the shingles came the pine tar, applied in gloppy brush loads.
    — Scott Frances, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The bushy beard, the pine tar stain on the back of his No. 10 Los Angeles Dodgers jersey and all of those postseason hits.
    — Stephen Hawkins, baltimoresun.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Gallen said it’s not unusual for a baseball to have a little pine tar on it.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Older pitchers learn to get by with junk, gumption and maybe a little bit of pine tar.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Just like smearing pine tar or spittle all over a baseball,...
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The players fixated on where Harper made contact: On the thinnest portion of the bat, an area slathered with pine tar.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Why, pitchers are even asked to bring their own rosin bag to the mound, with batters taking their own pine tar and batting donuts to and from the on-deck circle.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 16 May 2020
  • Jay Howell caught with pine tar on his glove during Game 3 and suspended for two games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • He was suspended for applying pine tar, smeared on his neck, to the baseballs.
    — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Carlos Santana uses so much pine tar on his bat that a glob of the sticky stuff often winds up on his shoulder.
    — Scott Lauber, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
  • But the homer was overturned, and Brett ruled out, after umpires determined there was too much pine tar on Brett’s bat.
    — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • There, by its lonesome, sits a nondescript, three-foot long sledgehammer with tape dripping off the frame and pine tar around the top.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 19 May 2021
  • Should pine tar or other substances be legalized to help pitchers grip the ball?
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • Some are still gooey from pine tar; others have been broken by a fastball fired a half-century ago.
    — Stan Grossfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • But now many pitchers are using pine tar, sunscreen, or some kind of homemade goo to improve their spin rate.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • In the meantime, will MLB change the rules on the sport’s most obvious non-secret, the pine tar and other sticky substances that pitchers use to get a better grip on the ball?
    — Ben Walker, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The last 20-plus years, guys would use pine tar-resin, sunscreen-resin, different concoctions.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2021
  • Then Bauer chimed in: More musings about how spin rate might be affected by bubble gum or pine tar followed.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Pitching labs have since figured out there is a way to improve the spin rate: load up pine tar or a similar sticky substance on your fingers.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 2 May 2018
  • Foreign substances such as pine tar and sunscreen have long been used by pitchers who have insisted it’s used simply to aid their grip.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021
  • Pitchers skirt the rules and use pine tar, Bullfrog sunscreen or other substances to gain a grip on the ball when the weather is cold or steamy; its use is widely acknowledged, and our respondents seem to be OK with that.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • His ensuing two seasons here were filled with loud ovations and endless pine tar splotches and so many more autographed baseballs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Nope, just because sunscreen and pine tar are eradicated doesn’t mean the field will suddenly tilt toward batters.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021

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