This is a black tar-like substance and it's dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference

Intense, like strong black tea and a black, almost tar-like center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mapping New Territory] Reference

The fuel is a tar-like sludge left over after petroleum is refined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today's WSJ in Photos: Nov. 27, 2007] Reference

Stain thirty minutes in a tar-like solution of aniline gentian violet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Bunker fuel is a tar-like sludge left over from the refining of petroleum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ships Draw Fire] Reference

The Kern River Oilfield in Bakersfield is full of a thick tar-like petroleum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Oil Reserves vs. Oil Prices] Reference

If there is dark, old blood and the stools are black and tar-like, seek medical advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference

What's left tends to be dense, tar-like, largely inert and attractive only to people who like to pave roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [In gulf oil spill's long reach, ecological damage could last decades] Reference

It's costlier than getting it from a simple land well because the tar-like oil has to be separated from the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008] Reference

It's costlier than getting it from a simple land well, because the tar-like oil has to be separated from the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008] Reference

Dromedaries, smeared all over with tar-like streaks, knocked down the women, who carried their children on their hips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

You are privy to in-the-moment transformations of a once verdant and fertile rainforest into a black tar-like terrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Hope Rothstein: Escape to Paradise! (With a Sense of Urgency)] Reference

The Athabasca oil sands are a massive deposit of bitumen -- a tar-like form of petroleum -- located in northern Alberta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: Winona LaDuke Pledges Help for Native Tribes Facing BP Oil] Reference

It's called bitumen, and it's so thick and heavy -- tar-like, if you will -- that it can't be drilled in conventional ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Brune: Palin's Pipeline From Hell] Reference

The sticky, tar-like stuff is buried beneath one of the most carbon rich and diverse forests in the world: the Boreal Forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Paglia: Pipelines are Forever: Why We Delivered the World's Dirtiest Oil to Secretary Clinton] Reference

They shoveled the tar-like, oil-laden sands and seaweed into piles on the shore as slick-covered waters lapped at their boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major oil-spill in Russia] Reference

While we were sitting down, however, Lor said she stepped in some tar-like substance and was going to wash it off in the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [In case you're interested...] Reference

In addition, in some shallow waters, mats of tar-like BP oil mixed with sand are trapped between sand bars, the February report said.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP Spill's Next Major Phase: Wrangling Over Toll on Gulf] Reference

But rising costs have made extracting the tar-like oil from the ground, sometimes using mining techniques, increasingly unattractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Turnaround in Oil Prices Isn't All Good News] Reference

As the world's governments move towards cleaner fuels, refiners are being forced to find new ways to deal with the tar-like leftover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bottom's Up] Reference

In the incident, uranim combined with coolant in the condenser to form a tar-like substance and had been impossible to decontaminate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At Long Lake, tar-like bitumen is drawn from the ground using steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market News] Reference

Thick, tar-like oil surrounded the boat for as far as the eye could see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE] Reference

When these molecules coalesce into large particles, they settle out as a tar-like rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel] Reference

The 41-year-old pipeline was transporting the oil - tar-like bitumen from Alberta's Cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market News] Reference

Thick, tar-like oil with a pungent scent surrounded the boat as far as the eye could see.    From Wordnik.com.  [KPIX: Top Stories Videos] Reference

Also, the entire cake was covered in tar-like caramel with chunks of dehydrated apple underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide] Reference

Meconium is the sticky, black tar-like substance that passes from the babies 'intestines after birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Doctors caution pregnant women, children] Reference

After you can go no further, distil off all the solvents so the asphalt material has a tar-like consistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

Dubbed "black liquor" because of the black, almost tar-like appearance, the substance is a byproduct of the pulping process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals] Reference

Getting rid of all that extra tar-like stuff from your colon helps you lose weight in ways that Adkins or South Beach never can.    From Wordnik.com.  [NBC Philadelphia - Top Stories] Reference

If you hit your body with the flame from it it leaves a tar-like substance on your body that takes more than one shower to get off.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The Orinoco Belt's reserves are typically thick and tar-like, with some patches difficult to reach with current drilling technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

The two oldest players in the oilsands have special royalty agreements that are based on the value of the tar-like bitumen they process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toronto Sun] Reference