How to Use pine tar in a Sentence

pine tar

noun
  • Batters are asked not to share pine tar sticks or batting donuts for warmup swings.
    — Dallas News, 23 July 2020
  • Gray hit in the previous half-inning and wiped pine tar on his leg.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 20 July 2021
  • Hitters will carry their own pine tar and donut to the on-deck circle.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 25 June 2020
  • On this night, the hardwood bruises had given way to dirt and pine tar.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • 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
  • Older pitchers learn to get by with junk, gumption and maybe a little bit of pine tar.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Should pine tar or other substances be legalized to help pitchers grip the ball?
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • As far as foreign substances go, Spider Tack is like pine tar on steroids.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • He was suspended for applying pine tar, smeared on his neck, to the baseballs.
    — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jay Howell caught with pine tar on his glove during Game 3 and suspended for two games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 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
  • The last 20-plus years, guys would use pine tar-resin, sunscreen-resin, different concoctions.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Oakum, a material made of hemp soaked in pine tar and oil that is embedded between the long ship planks, is ripped out in a process called reefing.
    — Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s a reason pitchers have long surreptitiously used foreign substances like pine tar.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • Pitchers using pine tar or other substances is not new, but egregious violations or instances have been reported in the past.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
  • After all, the league's offensive futility didn’t just disappear because pine tar and its stickier cousins were in the crosshairs.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • Teams have historically been reluctant to challenge opposing pitchers for going to the mound with a bit of pine tar on their arm or sunscreen under the brim of their cap, since their players were doing the same thing.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Both brews contain plenty of flavor on their own, but stop well short of the brutally hoppy IPAs that, though some adore, others might argue go down about as smoothly as pine tar.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Equipment manager Spencer Dallin and his staff also packed things like pine tar, rosin bags, batting tees and balls for the batting cage and special laundry detergent that are usually provided by the home team.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • There won’t be pine tar arguments or hard slides over the next several days, but the first postseason clash between the Royals and Yankees in 44 years will have some familiar elements.
    — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024

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