burlap
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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 The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
After the fossil hunters had recorded as much data as they could about where Apex was found, its bones were taped up in protective “jackets” made of plaster and burlap and lifted onto a trailer.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
It wouldn’t strain the imagination to picture him clutching burlap sacks printed with the euro symbol.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
The fragrant, sharp scents of chili, cumin, and turmeric travel down the slick, narrow walkways as wholesalers and buyers maneuver about with large burlap sacks atop their heads.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2023
Cari and Beto brought along a gift they’d prepared on their own, something bulky in a burlap sack, and they had made a cake.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
It was burlapped at purchase, which of course we removed before planting.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
All about him, burlapped cuttings rest like tablets brought down from Mount Sinai.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
By the middle of September such household goods as the Daltons had planned to take with them were packed, burlapped, crated, and labeled.
From The Tangled Threads by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
There's an awful big picture," Trudy was saying; "it's all burlapped up, so you can't tell what it is.
From Two Little Women by Carolyn Wells
But Sarah, in the burlapped studio, between piano pupils, was aghast and bitter.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
