(n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fungus soiling of burlap was not clearly diminished by prescribed applications of Impregon solution 3 mo previously.
(2) Observing this is like watching a cat try to escape a burlap sack.
(3) They were Italian-Americans who collected our trash in large burlap sacks that they’d throw over their shoulders before going back down the 30 or so stairs to their truck.
(4) It's just an hour, and even my fashion-snob self could cope with wearing a burlap sack for an hour.
(5) You will find a pack of coppers backed by the staff of GQ on your front stoop with a giant burlap sack, ready to confiscate all your denim items.
(6) To assess its effects, this agent was used as a laundry and paint additive and as a treatment for burlap rug backing; after recommended applications of Impregon, coded replicate materials were inoculated with mixed suspensions of fungus particles.
(7) One self-styled prophet wore burlap cloth and clutched an enormous book he had labelled in homemade block letters: HOLY BIBLE.
Sackcloth
Definition:
(n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(2) The matrix attached to the growth substratum had a "sackcloth-like" structure as seen by phase contrast, immunofluorescence, and scanning electron microscopy, and it had a vaguely filamentous ultrastructure similar to that seen in intact cell layers.
(3) Especially when Beyoncé on downtime is still a stunningly beautiful woman – it would take sackcloth and ashes to make her look truly awful.
(4) One would have thought that the Argentinian bishops would have seized the opportunity to call for pardon for themselves and put on sackcloth and ashes as the sentences were announced in Córdoba but that has not so far happened.
(5) Poor old Nick Clegg knows it’s all over but he hopes a mixture of sackcloth and ashes and disowning his past will save him.
(6) On our conditions, of course, in sackcloth and ashes: a small price to pay to save the European dream.
(7) The argument that recommends ankle-length sackcloth in order to allow men to get on with the real work?
(8) However, since this is the [Catholic church’s] jubilee year of mercy , I have forgiven these inspectors for their misjudgments, and they did not have to wear sackcloth and ashes all the way to Ofsted headquarters in London.
(9) An earthquake has happened in British politics and I did not foresee it,” he said, sackcloth and ashes just out of shot on College Green.
(10) Famed for his self-denial, Severinus is said to have slept on sackcloth.