burlap
Example Sentences
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She raised the burlap sack so I could see it.
From Literature
He had burlap over his shoes to silence his footsteps and ammonia on his clothes to drive off dogs.
From Los Angeles Times
I don’t have a suitcase, and it didn’t feel right to sneak one from the Tilburys, so I put everything in a burlap bag I found in the larder of the Mutton.
From Literature
The sled was piled high with burlap mail bags, all stuffed to bursting.
From Literature
It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
