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burlap

[bur-lap] / ˈbɜr læp /


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But even if there’s no hard camera footage of Kao giving Collins burlap sacks full of cash, there is undoubtedly a story that she got duped into delivering federal dollars to a scammer.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

In 2023 he bought NYP, a maker of burlap bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

They’re the only actors who’ve internalized that this is screwball stuff, despite the realistic cinematography that throws wet burlap on the nonsense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

For some time, we remained like this, he sitting motionless and I Observant now, regarding the burlap weave on the bottom of the sofa, measuring my breath for silence.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

But Sarah, in the burlapped studio, between piano pupils, was aghast and bitter.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

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

She bowled Sarah smoothly back to the burlapped studio in time for the eleven-twenty pupil.

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell


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