Example Sentences

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Coral polyps are tiny animals that have a sacklike body and a mouth encircled by tentacles.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2022

Last summer, a sacklike white dress mottled with black polka dots selling at Zara for $50 was all the rage on Instagram.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2020

Regularly exchanging Ariel’s turquoise-and-gold harem-pants outfit for a black wig and sacklike garb, Beckman also embodies a growly, dimwitted Caliban.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2015

In each, the rabbi cradles a Torah in one arm, its scroll handles projecting from its sacklike cover.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013

She was thinner than ever, clad in a shapeless sacklike affair tied about her middle.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare