burlap

Example Sentences

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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

These four women who were wrapped in camouflage burlap — and what's interesting is we only now know that the burlap was camouflage colored.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2023

I shake my head, lift the burlap sack, and proceed toward the staircase.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin