It's a bunch of Quonset huts and tar-paper shacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

A jumble of cardboard, tar-paper, tin, and plastic tarpaulins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The hidden places of Oaxaca] Reference

They have to tar-paper their stripping work before they leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-10-31] Reference

Gregg paused in his work of nailing tar-paper over the boards, and stretched wide his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

Held up against the hillside on long front legs like stilts was a little plank house with a tar-paper roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dollmaker] Reference

It was a handy place to live, that little tar-paper shanty around which the prairie wind whooed and whiffed with such disdain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Furrows] Reference

Château was our headquarters, and a tar-paper house which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great War As I Saw It] Reference

The roof was of two thicknesses of elm boards, with tar-paper between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West] Reference

It was of double plank, with tar-paper between to make it surely light-tight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac] Reference

The tar-paper structures in the foreground were used for storehouses and general out-buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning a Cause World War Stories] Reference

Not with all this beautiful mud and these tar-paper shacks and corner lot fruit stores lying round!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge] Reference

They slept under high board sidewalks for the first nights and erected tar-paper shanties on vacant lots the next day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Commonwealth] Reference

The Salvationists spent hours each week sitting on the roof in the driving rain patching leaks with tar-paper and tacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Romance of the Salvation Army] Reference

You may go through the railroad camps and see twenty men sleeping together in a one-room built of lath, tar-paper, and clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courts and Criminals] Reference

The exact position of each substrate is critical and windows often leak from a simple mis-folding of a piece of tar-paper or felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference