How to Use coal tar in a Sentence

coal tar

noun
  • There’s a nice tangy hint of oranges too, and the coal tar smoke persists.
    — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • On the other hand, coal tar has a long history as a medicine.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The first food dyes were created from coal tar in the late 1800s.
    — Lorne J. Hofseth, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2021
  • When searching for the best dandruff shampoo for dogs, keep an eye out for products that contain coal tar.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Quinine was used at the time to treat malaria, but Perkin's creation, made from coal tar, did no such thing.
    — CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Grebien said the coal tar is being cleaned up and extra booms are being added to protect the river.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • It was derived from coal tar, which was pretty much par for the course for the 19th century chemistry.
    — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Black henna is a synthetic coal tar dye and is not FDA-approved.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 Dec. 2015
  • Look for products that contain ingredients such as salicylic acid and coal tar.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the most common ones include pyrithione zinc, salicylic acid, ketoconazole, and coal tar.
    — Anthea Levi, Health.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • From coal tar comes the colorant tartrazine, otherwise known as Yellow #5.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • His plan was to extract a synthetic version of the malaria drug quinine from a sludgy byproduct of gas lighting known as coal tar.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Vogel pointed out the swirls of coal tar, and other inky substances, streaming by on the surface of the canal like galaxies.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But the coal-gasification plant left the ground saturated with a hazardous byproduct, coal tar.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Mission Control's air ducts were black with coal tar from the cigarettes, and replaced during the restoration.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 July 2019
  • Goeckerman therapy uses both coal tar and light therapies to help with symptoms.
    — Korin Mille, SELF, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But in the transition, some coal tar residue got out into the river — less than 20 gallons — creating a sheen.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Through wells drilling into the contamination zone, water will be pumped out to remove coal tar and stop the spread of its ingredients.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The antiseptic Lister ends up using is carbolic acid, which is extracted from coal tar, of all places.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Those plants provided residents with the comforts of heat and light, but left coal tar contamination behind.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Shah recommends using a shampoo with ingredients like salicylic acid, sulfur, tea tree oil, or coal tar.
    — Jessica Cruel, Teen Vogue, 23 July 2018
  • The contaminants included untreated sewage, which caused cholera and typhoid outbreaks that claimed thousands of lives, and coal tar.
    — Rana Hajirasouli, Harvard Business Review, 27 June 2024
  • Today, reflective fragments of coal tar cling to the water’s surface, striated in bands like a marble countertop.
    — Sasha Von Oldershausen, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The waste material from manufacturing gas was coal tar, a heavy and toxic liquid that readily sank into the site’s sandy soil.
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Another category of products that can help are keratolytics, such as coal tar and salicylic acid.
    — Leeann Duggan, Allure, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Over the next three decades, Danson tried nearly everything to fix it, including light boxes, coal tar and various ointments and diets.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The plant created coal tar as a byproduct, which contains contaminants such as sulfur, heavy metals and metalloids such as mercury and arsenic.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2020
  • One of the residues of that was coal tar, which is what the gas company buried during an era before there were any environmental laws or regulations, city officials said.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 Nov. 2017
  • People with both eczema and psoriasis also often find relief from over-the-counter ointments that use coal tar, an ingredient that reduces swelling and scaling.
    — Glamour, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The land is contaminated with coal tar from the canal and will require remediation before construction can begin.
    — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 23 Nov. 2021

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